Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Residents speak up over LIP concerns

Joined by other members of the Citizens Advocating
 Sensible Taxation (CAST), Reece Barrett, owner
of Barrett Auto Service on Manitoba Street West,
expresses his concerns with a local improvement
program for replacing cast iron water
mains on Dec. 1, 2015 at Pizza Hut.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald

By Lisa Goudy

Eleanor Snyder’s 93-year-old mother lives in her own home, but the costs she’d have to pay for the local improvement project (LIP) could change that.

Snyder, who lives on Keith Crescent and owns two properties on that street, is one of the 103 property owners who will be affected in 2016 by the city’s LIP to help pay for replacing cast iron water mains.

The city will provide 70 per cent of the cost of the entire program and affected property owners will have to pay an additional 30 per cent. With an estimated cost of $170 per front foot, a 50-foot lot would have to pay an average of $8,500 and a 100-foot lot would have to pay an average of $17,000, according to the Citizens Advocating Sensible Taxation (CAST).

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