Divide and Tax
The city, through its storm drain system, is dumping thousands of cubic yards of trash, garbage, silt, pollution and toxic waste materials from more than 10,000 acres of the city into the Ventura Keys.
With less than 1% of the runoff coming from the Keys, the city is trying to establish a scheme called a Benefit Assessment District in the Keys to force a small group of homeowners to clean up the city’s pollution of this ecologically sensitive area.
The mayor and certain council members believe that the citizens do not realize that the tax district could destroy homeowner Proposition 13 protection against unlimited property tax increases. Should the mayor get the Benefit Assessment District established in the city of Ventura, the city can go back to the “good old days” of divide and tax.
RAY RUSSUM
Ventura
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