Comments on: Threat of opting out looms

By: Rich Rifkin

Rich Rifkin — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 16:54:49 +0000

“Many leaders of no on P live in neighborhoods planning to opt out.” ………. What neighborhoods are planning to opt out? The only information I know on this is that Village Homes plans to irrigate its gardens, orchards and park space with well water. No others have, AFAIK, any plans to do the same. In any case, what Village Homes would be doing is not “opting out.” They would (I think) still use city water for their domestic water. ……….. If many other Davis neighborhoods copied the plan of Village Homes–a prospect which seems unlikely–it might be the case that extra costs would be borne by other ratepayers. Yet, that would not entirely be a bad outcome. It would mean that water used for irrigation would be of a lower quality from wells, leaving more, much higher quality water for household uses. It would also mean that, in a dry summer when less water is available from the Sacramento River, Davis would not need as much river water, because supposedly these opt-out neighborhoods would all be irrigating with well water.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 16:22:16 +0000

You argue that No on P doesn’t want to pay and will opt out to beat the system when in reality its yes on P who don’t want to pay and in many cases not because they can’t afford it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 16:17:51 +0000

The 6 month look-back provision of CBFR has been taken off the table for consideration by the City Council. And for the record, CBFR does not take place until Jan 1, 2015.

By: Jim Leonard

Jim Leonard — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:33:24 +0000

Wise analysis…