“Tattling on neighbors,” kind of reminds one of Nazi Germany, doesn’t it?
On the one hand, I don’t want to see water wasted during a drought.
On the other hand, a lot of this problem could be solved if the federal government wasn’t so hellbent on trying to protect a bait fish.
Just what I was thinking. Nazi-esque Brown Youth!
Under DCs Mayor Fente, I’m told there was a sign in the Mayor’s office urging people to report homes in their neighborhood that were vacant. There is a DC law that if your home is vacant for one month you have to register it as vacant or prove it is not with water bills and other bills, or prove you are working on it (permits), trying to sell it, or it is in litigation. If you are stupid enough to register it as vacant rather than get and exemption, then they immediately raise your taxes 6 times. In other words a $5,000 tax bill is immediately raised to $30,000. Mayor Fente’s protogee, Muriel Bowser is likely to be DCs next mayor. I have heard a DC employee whisper to a distressed homeowner that they should just waste water to prove occupancy.