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Originally Posted by Bunk
There's apartment-dwelling latte sippers (often at the childless stage) but also a lot of latte sippers with kids in (decently large) inner city houses.
As for the levy. There is a new levy for redevelopment to help cover the cost of new water and wastewater treatment capacity. The new community levies have been a round for a long time, but now cover "100%" of the cost of infrastructure to service those communities. Previously, existing rate-payers and tax-payers picked up more of the tab for infrastructure that primarily benefitted specific new subvivisions. Developers already paid all on-site infrastructure costs, this is for off-sites like pipe extensions, treatment, interchanges, fire stations, rec centres and so forth. Redevelopment does pay for things like sanitary pipe upgrades, not through a levy, but through one-off payments if their development is triggering a capacity constraint. Levies are usually more on per unit basis, but are predictable, these one-offs are not predictable.
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I'm gonna guess the answer here, but now that these are being covered, does that mean my water and sewage bills are going to go down?
