Lower Base residents to vote on hook-up scheme

Over the next few weeks, the remaining residents of the Lower Base neighbourhood who have yet to hook their houses up to utilidor pipes will vote, through mail-in ballots, on whether to accept a subsidy plan aimed at defraying the cost of installing the connections.

Under the plan, the city will give each homeowner a $1500 grant to help pay the cost of connecting their system to the utilidor, and will pay the cost of installing pipes from the mains up to each resident’s lot line.

Each homeowner may pay the remaining cost all at once, or through payments spread over many years.

At a public hearing this past Tuesday, city officials said ballots will be mailed out soon.