Letter to the Editor -- Morning Star

This letter to the editor penned my Mr Borden has the issues confused. The issue here is: who should have paid for the sewer extension? Coldstream Meadows needed to connect to sewer thus they should have constructed the entire sewer main from their property to McClounie Road. Council would have been within its legal rights to require that.

The policy of Council is that sewer extension is development driven. That happened to all the developments on Middleton Mountain, the Highlands subdivision and most recently on Aberdeen Road. The only exception to this policy was the line built at the expense of sewer utility customers from McClounie to Aberdeen Road. Furthermore, Coldstream Meadows was not charged a connection fee upon connecting up to 160 units to this line while all other customers are charged a connection fee of $2,000. The public interest would have required the developer to pay the cost of his sewer connection.

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