Loading ...“Storm Water Runoff Tax” for property owners. Calculated by how much square footage is paved over, causing water runoff into storm drains and ultimately to (rivers and) the ocean. The cable company’s production arm had a big push to get school kids to produce ‘public service’ TV ads that are airing on cable channels now, attempting to justify why it is the right thing for ‘cleaning up the environment’. Property owners in urban Honolulu are going to see their property taxes balloon up to something huge in money… some talk of possibly doubling one’s present property taxes.
They want to encourage more ‘green space’ for drainage areas where water can soak into the ground and replenish the aquifer. But it is a massive bureaucratic money grab. The city & county is setting up a whole new bureaucratic department of “Storm Water Management”.
Thankfully I live in a different county that is mostly rural. No storm drains in my area, and I have no ‘paved areas’ on my property. My roof runoff returns to the ground.