Per the Charlottesville Tomorrow story today: (bolding mine)
The Glenmore community has a single source of public drinking water, a 4-mile pipeline that runs along U.S. 250 east of Charlottesville. However, if Albemarle officials decide to add a backup storage tank, they will use $2 million of the county’s capital funds rather than ask the developers or Glenmore residents to pay for it.
“It is not something that is needed to provide [water] for Glenmore,†said James Bowling IV, legal counsel for the Albemarle County Service Authority. “It’s a convenience [but] one that you would certainly call a necessity if there was an emergency.â€
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Cumulatively, the glenmore community probably pays more than 1.5mm a year in albemarle property tax, so 2mm for their water tank doesn’t seem too egregious.
A small clarification. Ratepayers (not taxpayers) would pay for this as it would come from the ALbemarle County Service Authority Capital budget. This is a very different fund than the County Capital Improvement Plan.
Neil
Thanks, Neil. Realistically, they’re pulling from the masses to pay for a few, no?
Not any more so than Glenmore residents paying for Crozet (or North 29) Capital improvements to the water system; which they have been doing through the ACSA CIP for their entire existance.