It’s only fair; restart the UEP
To the editor:
Have you noticed that utility bills rise for southern Cape as northern Cape sits pretty? It’s ridiculous that my family, my neighbors, and most of my peers’ utility bills are being raised.
After the Waste Water Facility and Water Processing Facility were built, construction stopped on the Utilities Project in the northern Cape due to the residents’ votes. What the residents don’t understand though, is that they’re actually only hurting themselves and the Cape Coral ecosystem due to not wanting to pay for utilities. You might as well do your fishing now and put the money you refuse to use for the utility expansion towards making your wells deeper and/or fixing your septic system, Northern Cape, because the downfall is coming.
Please, stop claiming that “hard times” is why you won’t pay for the expansion. Do you really think that people in the southern Cape have the money to pay for 110 percent higher water bills? It’s not fair to us.
How do we resolve this? City Council needs to step up and stop taking votes on the utility expansion. In the long run the expansion has to happen. Why put off the inevitable? It’s going to be extremely beneficial, and it is not fair to southern Cape residents to have to pay higher utility bills. If the city refuses to push people to pay, when the utilities are put in, the residents should have to pay just as much as we are paying now. This is not Monopoly, you can’t pick and choose what you pay for, Northern Cape.
Melissa Boostedt
Cape Coral