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Marin is currently in a bad drought. Seems pretty prudent to not issue water meters when there is barely enough water for the existing homes.
by eweise 5y ago
Marin is currently in a bad drought. Seems pretty prudent to not issue water meters when there is barely enough water for the existing homes.
- jeffbee 5y agoHow convenient for them that they were able to simply declare that a creek arising in a national park is the property of just the exact people who happened to be living there at a particular moment! I'm sure there was nothing exclusionary about it.
- asdff 5y agoIt's not like access to water is an unsolved problem in CA. We've moved heaven and earth to shift water thousands of miles and satiate millions of people in CA. Watering Bolinas is not technically impossible, it's only politically impossible. Given the property values, the residents there can certainly afford added taxes to go towards replacing their 100 year old infrastructure, but choose not to, as they have a mental philosophy that can be boiled down to "no new friends" at best, and boldface xenophobia at worst.
- Lammy 5y agoYeah that was their defense back in the '80s too https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/587/631/1753166/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/5... > At the heart of the complaint is the contention that, although a temporary water moratorium is one thing, an "emergency" lasting twelve years is a taking. They allege that it is the unlawful duration of the moratorium which constitutes the continuing wrong. Note: This was written in 1983~4, so it's now been an "emergency" lasting fifty years :)