CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) — The Cape Coral City Council voted to delay the North 3 Utilities Expansion Project, but some Cape Coral neighbors still want questions answered about what will happen next.

WINK News spoke with several Cape Coral property owners who are pleased with the council’s decision to go back to the drawing board on the project. The question still remains: who will be responsible for the $3 million in redesign costs?

“I still want to know how we got from non-assessed to assessed,” Michelle Daniel said. “There was either a very large mistake that happened or something a little bit more deliberate, and I think that we need to know. We just need to know, and we’re not getting our questions answered.”

Daniel said she is afraid that the delay for a redesign of North 3 UEP will raise the costs on taxpayers due to the city’s lack of communication on the project. She said transparency is crucial moving forward.

“We need to know that the numbers that we’re being given are accurate,” Daniel said. “We need transparency, and I think that people in UEP three would be happy to pay their assessments if we knew what the bottom dollar was, where they get the figures from.”

The North 3 Utilities Expansion Project is intended to bring city water, wastewater and irrigation services to areas in northwest Cape Coral. Alternative Five would have added multi-purpose pathways on either side of the roadway.

For Tim Daly, who owns two homes in the area, that nearly $6,000 additional price tag would have been costly. He said the total cost would have been significant.

“So I would anticipate that would be somewhere between 40 and $50,000, also,” Daly said. “So all in, we’re looking at six figures, 100 grand, to implement this. A lot of money, an awful lot of money.”

With the extension, these Cape Coral homeowners said they hope the council has better communication in the coming months. Jack Torbeck said he wants regular updates on the project’s costs.

“So I would like to see them keep us informed on a pretty regular basis as to how much cost is going to be involved in UEP three North, and I would like to make sure that’s equitable on both sides of Burnt Store Road,” Torbeck said.

The neighbors said they hope the redesign of the project is done sooner, rather than having to wait an additional year.