As mentioned previously, and I second this comment, chip seal only adds surface texture to a road surface. It's just tar with small stones sprinkled on it. No filling of holes, cracks, or heave removal. Our county uses this process every 10 years or so to give us some snow traction. Pretty soon all that is left is the tar, which looks very nice on your wheels, driveway, and garage floor. There will be dust clouds you can't see thru for a week after application, too.
Around here, you pay for County road improvements based on frontage ($200 per foot) and votes counted by the foot also. I have 800 ft of frontage. Guess how my vote went ? AND, county wants 60ft roadway easement, curb and gutter and bike lanes. Too bad, My property has NO easements at all (not even for the road, none for utilities and nothing for 'communications' equipment (cable company wires). They have road access based on what they have been maintaining for 100 years (12' wide prescriptive easement). Plus, there is still 1 kid on the road who needs a schoolbus to take him to middles school 1000' ft away. (Children not allowed to walk to school). So, the county HAS to snow plow and scrape the dirt/gravel so little Rembrandt doesn't get a bouncy ride on the bus (and he's the only on on it !).
Too bad. I said no and that was the end of the story.