April 5 - Town of Falmouth

in this town. We are perhaps going to be facing sewering this town in the
not too distant future. I know we’ve heard from wastewater management
people that it’s going to be necessary. For every one – whether it’s 230 or
only 60 additional principal dwellings that we allow to exist in this town,
whether they’re condo or whatever, that’s going to add to that burden.
And the tax rate doesn’t meet that demand. If the tax rate met
the demand, well, we had just – before 2008, the collapse of the bubble of
2008 which was just the most recent real estate bubble that collapsed,
before that, we were increasing the number of properties, people were
building condos, people were building houses quite legitimately, a lot of
them, because they were on single lots. But if the demand for those – the
demand on services that those units created were covered by the extra
taxes they paid, why in hell, excuse me, are we having to cut services in
this town? Why does the fire chief and the police chief have to come in
and look for overrides to meet operating budgets?
the costs.
heard.
No. When you increase those units that way, you don’t meet
MR. FREEMAN: Point of order.
THE MODERATOR: Mr. Freeman.
MR. LATIMER: Excuse me, Mr. Moderator, I’d like to be
THE MODERATOR: Mr. Freeman.
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