gemgram wrote:
Something disturbing was added to the StormWatergate. I was unaware that I was not only being defrauded on impervious charge calculations, but also being required to pay almost three times as much per stormwater unit for my owner-occupied duplex as someone living in a single-family house pays for the same unit. I would like to thank the poster who brought that charge to our attention. Not owning a "single-family" house I was unaware that they paid so little when compared to duplexes.
Before you do anymore to make us all out to be both poor and pitiful, rather than just poor: the city does have an argument, to some extent, in charging a two-, 3-, 4-unit building more for waste water, particularly if the units are filled with families rearing children and have on-site laundry facilities. Where the argument breaks down is duplexes and small multi-unit dwellings without laundries, spas, whatever rented to adult singles without children.
With the changes they need to implement on their new attempt at policy, it is a good time to push the envelope just a smidge, but it is early enough not to make a federal case of the problem. Particularly since it's an election year and The Pertinent 14 all want to be seen as cooperative with their constituents. Why else would they launch this little potato just now?
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