Storm Water Assessment Fees of Business Parking Lots a Mistake

Many Municipalities, which are trying to comply withthis will be a hardship on those small businesses. Bad
the EPA mandated NPDES Permitting are looking atmove.
ways to clean the storm water and some areNext if you charge this to large retailers they will
attempting to past these costs onto the privatemake it up in higher costs to consumers? Oh
parking lot owners. Yet I would advise they not dowonderful thanks a lot Mr. Bureaucrat. In Milwaukee
this for several reasons.they want to assess each parking lot owner a fee of
Number one if you charge a parking lot owner fees$50.00 per quarter for ever 10,000 square feet? Also
for storm water compliance then you are not gettingthey wish to charge smaller businesses with a one
them to do anything about the run-off and thus notacre parking lot $800.00 per year.
solving the problem, bad move. Instead you areThis is crazy non-sense and if it is a parking company
taking their monies to fund the storm waterimagine the fees and they will go right on and charge
department; oh great that is what we need morehigher fees to those who park there and you again
government and bureaucracy?hurt the consumer as they are already paying too
Now then if you charge the parking lot owners hugemuch in gasoline to get to the parking lot in the first
fees then they will end up charging more money inplace. Bad move, bad idea and typical linear thinking
the Triple Net leases to small business owners andpoliticians. This is nuts. Consider this in 2006.