That is normally done in most areas.
My mother has septic, but is surrounded by the city.
They have no intent on running lines into my mothers subdivision but
if they choose to sign on with the city they will charge them a large
hook up fee, and then the customer will have to pay to run the line
from the house to the street, WHEN THE LINE IS PUT IN. (No guarantee
on when) Oh all this must be paid up front.
Nice way for a city to cash in and then procrastinate.
Our church is on septic although we are well within the city
limits. We have been told that if we want to hook up, we must put in
a grinder pump system of City Approved pumps and pay the city a
yearly fee to service the pumps. Oh plus a hook up fee for
commercial properties. Guess that is why we have kept our septic system.
Stewart
At 10:07 AM 2/3/2009, you wrote:
That is actually a simple problem to solve. You charge new customers
the cost of extending service / capacity to them. If a developer
wants to put in 50 houses a couple miles out from the current
termination point of the service, you charge the developer the full
cost of bringing in the services. They in turn will fold that into
the resale cost of the houses. If folks won't buy at that price,
smart developers won't build.
The waste is folks using utilities inefficiently because there is no
economic incentive to do otherwise.
Matthew
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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