The funny thing is not so much the tax, but the things they are going to reward people for doing.
Lets say people really jump on the rain barrel idea... and honestly its free water, so its not really such a bad idea for an individual to capture at least some of that rain into barrels and use it for watering your lawn or washing your car or other things that don't require water to be fit for human consumption to do during the summer. All well and good right???
Well not exactly, you get enough folks doing that, and you wind up affecting the water tables, because less water is being fed back into the rivers and streams, which leads you to larger problems.. not enough water downriver, drought etc. Not so much an issue in VA, but out west many peoples lives have been ended over feuds over water and water rights.
>>>> No, its a tax on runoff. And honestly, if it forces folks to think a bit more about runoff when they develop, that’s a good thing <<<<
While I understand that your issues are a bit different, my comments pertain to a rainfall tax on individual homeowners in Richmond VA.
Not one penny of this covert tax will be applied to storm drains.
The funds will not be used to entice shopping center developers to provide for better rainwater handling.
Period.