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Charging Vacant Lots for Access to Water and Sewer Services Deemed Unconstitutional
Author(s) -
Stiegler Hayo H.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2005.tb10816.x
Subject(s) - combined sewer , sanitary sewer , business , property (philosophy) , environmental science , transport engineering , civil engineering , environmental engineering , engineering , stormwater , ecology , surface runoff , biology , philosophy , epistemology
The Court of Appeals of Washington has determined that availability charges assessed to owners of vacant lots for water and sewer access, even though such properties were not connected to a city's water and sewer systems, were unconstitutional property taxes.