Sewer Fees Are Cut for Mobile Home Dwellers
The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to lower the sewer service charges levied against mobile home park residents, many of whom live in the San Fernando Valley, in an amendment to a $200-million plan for improving the city’s sewer system.
The amendment, which was tacked onto the sewer spending plan by Valley Councilman Hal Bernson, calls for mobile home park dwellers to pay the same sewer service charge as other city residential customers. They now pay the higher commercial rates.
Under Bernson’s amendment, mobile home park residents will pay $1.03 for every 100 cubic feet of water they use--13 cents less than they would pay under commercial rates.
Most of the city’s mobile home parks are in the north and east San Fernando Valley. Seven are located in Bernson’s 12th District, in the northwestern Valley.
Bernson’s measure was patterned after a proposal introduced in 1990 by Councilmen Ernani Bernardi and Joel Wachs, both of whom also represent Valley districts. The Bernardi-Wachs measure has been stalled in the council’s Public Works Committee.
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