Petersburg assembly gives first OK to remote subdivision ballot question Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Apr 21, 2021 Frederick Point East properties, at the right hand side of this image, can be accessed by water, or remote forest road and trails. (Image from the Petersburg borough’s interactive property map) Voters could decide on removing a remote subdivision from Petersburg’s service area one this fall. The borough assembly Monday gave the first of three approvals to a ballot question on Frederick Point East. Property owners there have asked to be removed from service area one, which has a higher property tax rate than the rest of the borough. Those land owners say they should pay the lower rate because they do not receive garbage collection, snow plowing, water, sewer or other services offered on the more populated parts of the island.