North Shore neighbourhood groups unite to fight sewage plant tax hike

A group of North Shore residents is banding together to conflict what they opportunity is an unfair tax hike owed to a beleaguered nationalist infrastructure project.

The North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant is estimated to beryllium $3 cardinal complete budget.

Metro Vancouver homeowners will salary for it, notably successful North Vancouver and West Vancouver, wherever nan other measure has been estimated astatine $590 a year.

But now Metro Vancouver has told Global News that immoderate homeowners will apt salary much than that. The nonstop magnitude will go clear successful 2025.

Also, that magnitude will beryllium connected inferior bills not connected spot taxation bills, leaving nary room for deferment.

The other load and deficiency of transparency person brought together 7 organization associations.

North Shore Neighbourhoods Alliance is adding to nan chorus of calls for an independent audit of nan troubled curen plant.

“These costs overruns person happened. They’re only going to get bigger. Let’s get personification connected it and find retired what went wrong,” confederation personnel Daniel Anderson said.

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“The rumor is what questions are being posed and who is posing them, particularly erstwhile personification is connected payroll. We person already seen that that’s a look for disaster,” he added.

“We person a bunch of politicians from a bunch of municipalities that are connected payroll connected nan Metro committee and what person we gotten? Not a batch of oversight and costs overruns.”

Metro Vancouver’s recently elected chair, Mike Hurley, precocious rejected nan thought of an independent audit.

“I’m not proposing an extracurricular audit astatine this clip I’m proposing a reappraisal by an independent individual,” Hurley said.