[Vision2020] Bursting water mains

[cynthia nichols]

Reading BJ's e-mail about water, made me think of another water issue.

I'd like to know how the pro-growth advocates will pay for new water  
mains when all this growth completely overtaxes existing city  
infrastructure like water mains. I know of at least two water main  
bursts that took place about a month or two ago--those are merely the  
ones I'm aware of--there are probably other incidents as well.

Are you going to have taxpayers foot the bill? (I know that you'd say  
asking developer fees to offset the cost would certainly be "anti- 
business".)

Of course, when the water's gone, I guess we won't have to worry so  
much about water mains bursting--but shouldn't we be planning ahead  
and taking care of what's already here before outgrowing our  
infrastructure?

cynthia nichols