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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very convenient that this policy will not actually impact neighborhoods where many of the elected representatives live. Properties in the S-6 sewer service area are almost impossible to connect to public sewer They will not get multifamily housing which allows our country representatives to change the zoning rules but categorically exclude their neighborhood. A rental quadplex doesn't work financially in an areas that is banned from having public sewer. It only takes one bad tenant to trash your entire septic system then you need to spend 50k-100k+ to replace it. Investors will not want to build multifamily units with septic. If the people that are proposing this policy are unwilling to create "attainable housing" and multifamily units in their own neighborhoods, why should we believe that this significant overhaul of zoning rules is good idea for the everyone else living in the county?[/quote]

If investors won't want to build multi-unit housing on septic, and actually I'm not sure that multi-unit housing on septic is even allowed, then how is this hypocrisy? What it actually seems to be, to me, is an opportunity for you to ask the council to add language that says that the zoning changes only apply to properties on public water and sewer. [/quote]

If you don't even understand how  comprehensive sewer plan works then you are very clueless about this whole process. Some of these neighborhoods that our council members live in are literally right next to existing sewer infrastructure, but the county policies are written in a way explicitly forbid their neighborhoods from connecting to sewer infrastructure. So they can change the zoning, but the county's existing sewer policies effectively ban the these housing types in their own neighborhood. This is a backdoor way to exempt themselves from their own policy proposals. They could promote housing affordability even more by relaxing sewer connection policies, but they are not willing to do that because it impacts the place that they live. [/quote]

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