the City is looking at implementing a new stormwater utility. For property owners, this will mean that starting in 2014, stormwater costs will be taken off of their property taxes and will appear on a new Stormwater Utility bill...
The Stormwater Utility will follow a user-pay model... Stormwater Utility charges will be calculated based on the amount of hard or "non- permeable" surface area, such as roofs, driveways, parking lots and other paved surfaces, that water can't flow through.
This was brought up over at HHV by LeoM and I found it interesting how quiet things are about this in general. It seems like a cleaver way to introduce a new tax that is relatively arbitrary and free from limits. The say it is moving it from property taxes but who are they kidding? Just the added administration is excuse enough for an increase! Plus it's not actually user pay since no outflow is actually being measured.
I guess they are scrambling to come up with new revenue....