The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
TODAY’S QUESTION: Should new development be paused until infrastructure (roads, schools, utilities) catches up?
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Absolutely,
Them people in charge need to realize, houses don’t need to be only 12′ – 14′
apart, on small lots with a back yard that takes 4 minutes to mow.
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Am definitely not interested in listening to neighbors flushing their toilet
or singing in the shower.
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Land ain’t goin’ anywhere, take a break.
You know it is always been a “rubber band” type thing: one of the factors always comes before the other then the other catches up, passes it, then the cycle starts over again.
You couldnt do anything that would make me want one of those newly built crap homes theyre building. Cheap build quality creeks cracks thin walls peeling paint crooked cabinets loose floorboards did i miss anything?
plus i dont want to be in arms length of my neighbors puking up their late night mcdonalds burger from a drunk night out.
no thanks!
Yes! like 25-30 yrs ago! … in fact some of the local “officials” agree with that – but the other city council members, etcc. want the developer fees, taxes, etc, no matter what condition the infrastructure is in due to their “deferred maintenance”
It depends.
Developers pay “impact fees” which are supposed to go towards infrastructure & utility capacity.
Development also installs their own project’s infrastructure.
The main questions include:
1. Where do the utility companies & districts (EBMUD, CCWD, PG&E, Central Sanitary, MDUSD, CCCFPD, etc.) spend these fees?
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2. Are organization (staff) growth & budgets outpacing revenue?
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3. What is the current and acceptable debt to income (revenue) ratios in order to float infrastructure bonds?
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There should be a comprehensive audit of all utility and public works organizarions by a neutral third party to identify disinvestment and deferred maintenance and then prioritize spending on the things that matter.
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Remember when CCWD promised that the increases in OUR water fees (for the new reservoir) would be temporary…just until Antioch, Bay Point and Shore Acres development’s new home-buyers’ payments would kick in and cover the costs? Yep!
Any big developers should have to “throw in” a grammar school, maybe even a middle school.
No new development (or the County utilities) should be allowed to make “old” neighborhoods pay for their “new” infrastructure, water, power, etc.
CCWD still making Central CCCo supplement costs for expansion of Antioch and Shore Acres growth in the 70’s/80’s. Remember when that cost was going to be “temporary?”