[Pontiac]

And they deny that the review allows the use of satellite technology to find out if people have built extensions.

They already do this here in the states. You blokes better get with the times. (sarcasim)

As for the parking they have started doing that here recently as well. They tax us for water shed. That is they tax us per square foot for rain water run off of our roof and paved areas on our property. This supposedly is for the treatment of storm water run off and the preservation of creeks and rivers.

[MadIvan]

Mrs Ivan and I are worried about the green movement - not just because it's bad policy, but because it's an excuse for higher taxes. We're going to put in as much energy saving items as we can, vote properly and hang on until the fad passes.

Regards, Ivan

[Will_Zurmacht]

Classic! Taxed for the rain water that falls on your property...

wonder how many goons it took to come up with that one?

[jim_trent]

Actually, you are (or will) not being taxes for the rain that falls on your property. You are being taxed to pay to treat it so that is clean.

This was started by the Clean Water Act in 1968. Back then, lots of communities dumped raw sewage (human waste) in streams and left it for those downstream to clean it up. It started with the biggest cities and worked down from there. In several places now, the treated wastewater is cleaner than the river they dump it into.

Now, they are expanding to the dog poop, lawn fertilizer, oil under the car engine, etc that the rainwater picks up when it falls on your property and runs downhill. This was started nearly 40 years ago and the people here are just starting to notice. Like eminent domain, if you wait until it has been done for 40 or 50 years before protesting, you are TOO LATE.