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| In spite of a City-wide sewer moratorium where other builders with smaller projects have been turned away, the City approved this subdivision without requiring all downhill sewer mains to be fixed before its 42 new homes could be built. City officials significantly changed a sewer mitigation at the last moment, then refused to allow agency or adequate public review of those changes and refused to recirculate the EIR, but instead charged these Redding developers $313,310 instead of actually repairing a critical, undersized sewer main. Spills of raw sewage from that sewer have caused the State to issue a cease-and-desist order in the past, and they have threatened the City with large fines if it occurs again. The City's sad history of "corporate welfare" sewer freebies it has given other developers, as well as mismanagement of its sewer fund, are the reasons the public is now seeing massive hikes in sewer connection fees and monthly sewer charges. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substitute City Attorney Margaret Engelhardt, from Redding, advised Council to ignore protests about City's failure to allow the public to view significantly altered project documents. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The sewer fees charged these Moss developers are not adequate mitigations because they might not even be available to help fund the sewer repair. The City's Finance Director stated that the City would be assuming the risk of a large rainstorm contributing to a sewage spill before the sewer line improvements are completed, in which case a good portion of the $313,310 that the applicant would be paying could be taken up by monetary fines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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