Building Moratorium Likely to Be Extended
The city was expected to extend a 45-day building moratorium, giving administrators more time to find ways to increase capacity at the city’s overloaded sewage-treatment plant.
On Oct. 20, the City Council imposed a moratorium on issuing building permits that require sewer connections because city engineers discovered that Soledad’s sewage-treatment plant was near capacity and filtering ponds ran the risk of overflowing.
The moratorium, which could be extended for two years, exempts 218 building projects that already have permits. At the request of the council, administrators also are exploring the possibility of exempting commercial and industrial construction from the moratorium.
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