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A coalition of public employee unions alleges that this is a subterfuge designed to conceal who is really funding the initiative. In a complaint filed last month with the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, they call it “campaign money laundering plain and simple.” “It’s a long campaign ahead,” he told me. “You’ll see lots of contributors to the campaign — we’re just getting started.” He added, “We utilize our issue PACs appropriately.”The Cadiz water scheme has been a dead-project-walking for two decades. Biden may finally put it in the grave.
The idea is to calculate the distance of a new residential development from urban centers or transit lines and impose a fee to encourage more construction in already densely populated areas and less in the exurbs. Real estate firms detest VMT because it raises the cost of building new developments out on the horizon.
New parking structures, possible road widenings and other projects will be necessary, which the city hoped to finance through new assessments on property near the site.