Thank you Tom for a good summary (I listened to part of meeting live, its on the city website via podcast, I'd urge all taxpayers to watch /listen). Thank goodness we passed the tax Cap or these guys would levy New York style taxes on us to pursue their agendas. The other obvious thing that jumps out at me is , I'm for growth, but it has to pay for itself. If they are coming to me and my 40 yr old residence for revenue, then the growth is not paying for itself. The Council gets a lot of push back from residents on growth, I don't understand how they will be successful politically if growth raises legacy resident's taxes, instead of taxing the growth? Meanwhile they are attempting fuzzy math for these mandatory utility connections with the Grant strategy (which doesn't even consider the advanced Septic tank regulations from Tallassee)
Since you've done some reading on the 2030 septic regulations I think I have a 3rd option:
1.) Hook to city utilities.
2.) Upgrade to new type septic.
3.) Community septic. This has been used elsewhere. You and your neighbors (by unit number maybe) share the use of a larger low nitrogen septic system that instead of a field system has a single feed to the city sewer. I think this could dramatically cut the cost to the homeowners, but I haven't had a chance to do an adequate analysis of that.
Thank you Tom for a good summary (I listened to part of meeting live, its on the city website via podcast, I'd urge all taxpayers to watch /listen). Thank goodness we passed the tax Cap or these guys would levy New York style taxes on us to pursue their agendas. The other obvious thing that jumps out at me is , I'm for growth, but it has to pay for itself. If they are coming to me and my 40 yr old residence for revenue, then the growth is not paying for itself. The Council gets a lot of push back from residents on growth, I don't understand how they will be successful politically if growth raises legacy resident's taxes, instead of taxing the growth? Meanwhile they are attempting fuzzy math for these mandatory utility connections with the Grant strategy (which doesn't even consider the advanced Septic tank regulations from Tallassee)
Since you've done some reading on the 2030 septic regulations I think I have a 3rd option:
1.) Hook to city utilities.
2.) Upgrade to new type septic.
3.) Community septic. This has been used elsewhere. You and your neighbors (by unit number maybe) share the use of a larger low nitrogen septic system that instead of a field system has a single feed to the city sewer. I think this could dramatically cut the cost to the homeowners, but I haven't had a chance to do an adequate analysis of that.