[quote=bearishgurl][p, I can tell you that, in Chula Vista, the City government expanded *exponentially* between 2000 and 2008, in ALL Depts. The City was sitting fat and happy with all the new development fees and their share of the property taxes emanating from all those new developments. …………..
This is indirectly all due to reassessments, mostly on *newer* construction in those much-ballyhooed two newer zip-code annexations, 91914 and 91915, that the City was very much in favor of acquiring but now must serve :={[/quote]
Exactly. We’re talking all the new construction in Chula Vista w/MR. They basically built a new city w/in Chula Vista called Eastlake. And they got plenty of revenue, I’m sure, from the development of that new town.
Now if the city wants to squander it, that’s fine, but don’t come back to the trough wanting more money from hard-working people.
I oppose this. I just have a problem w/it. Not that I don’t want to pay for services. For instance, the City of San Diego does not charge for trash pick up. That’s crazy. Charge for it. I’m willing to pay to have my trash picked up. I can’t think of any city I’ve ever lived in that does not charge for it.
I’m not looking for free services. But if you can’t manage finances, I have a problem w/it. I don’t want to fund people’s bad finances, whether it is someone who buys a home they can’t afford or a city that thinks money grows on trees.
