Today's Geelong Advertiser article: "Clifton Springs residents say $1m drain bill 'extortion'" reports on the meeting held at the City of Greater Geelong yesterday regarding resident's submissions on the proposed Drysdale/ Clifton Springs retirement village main drain scheme.
"CLIFTON Springs residents have described as "extortion" and "criminal" a Geelong city council plan to make them pay over $1 million to build a main drain in the area. About 40 ratepayers have been told they could be liable for amounts ranging from $3361 to $256,888 depending on the size of their lots. About 30 angry residents attended a submissions hearing panel last night at City Hall to plead their case..."
The minutes from the Geelong council meeting of 23 February 2010 details the reasons behind the council requirement for residents to subsidise the developer of the retirement villages's costs of installing the main drain. Residents are naturally pushing back on this "requirement".
Comment was made by Council that if the drain was not implemented then the retirement village development would not proceed.
Council will take another 2 - 3 months to review all the material and research the proposal prior to making a report and recommendation for full council consideration.
Watch this space!
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