Cambria water protest stops second rate rise

CAMBRIA, CA-Cambrians will pay 12 percent more for water and sewage-treatment service through June, but services district directors didn’t approve the rest of a proposed increase.

A ratepayers’ protest against the package failed by a margin of less than 2 percent, according to Cambria Community Services District records, so directors certified the results of the count. But two of the four board members at a meeting last week said they wouldn’t approve a second rate increase to take effect July 1, 2009, because such a significant number of Cambria residents and property owners had officially objected.

It was the second rate-increase protest launched by Cambria citizens within a year. The first one succeeded.

Cambria has been under a virtual building moratorium since November 2001, when the district declared a water-shortage emergency.

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Source: San Luis Obispo

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