Should condo association ask for city takeover of its roads and sewers?

Has any condo association have experience in getting the City to take responsibility for maintaining the private condo association street instead of letting the association budget deal with street repairs? We have about 102 condo unit owners on our private drive (per declaration and disclosure papers) and some are wondering if it would be good to get the City to take responsibility for the street repairs. We have sewer grates that are filled with weeds and water floods the street, and we get a lot of public traffic due to school buses and apartment complex that sits at the end the street, too (they do help pay for some general maintenance). The developer is out of business and can't do the repairs to the sewers and some underground water pipe leaks that just developed. Is there an advantage to having the City take it over? Would our taxes go up? In my opinion, the City may be worse than us maintaining it. Our main street is snowplowed early enough by the private company we hire, maybe the City wouldn't get to it until afternoon, but I would appreciate all comments as to how to go about this with the City. Get a petition going?