GROWTH: Citizens shouldn’t pay
Why must the citizens pay for growth? Developers, builders, real estate agents, title companies, bankers, contractors, framers, lumber suppliers, city/county building departments and utility companies all profit or benefit (some a lot more than others); for example, a 600 unit apartment complex, new 1100 home neighborhood, 400 room hotel; but when it comes to the actual infrastructure required for those, it’s the current residents/longtime residents who pay the bill. We pay for it by force via utility bills, bonds, levies, traffic congestion, road construction delays, loss of our time (most limited thing on earth) access to public waterways, clean air, clean drinking water to enjoy that time.
If it costs or funding needs secured for $43,000,000 in next two years to upgrade wastewater processing for the new growth, it needs to come out of the profit margins, not from the citizens who already get to enjoy all the negatives of those projects. PERIOD.
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