The Basin Management Committee will meet on Zoom, Wednesday, December 16 at 1:30 p.m.. Their board packet was released Friday and contained this quote about sewer hook-ups in Los Osos!
Enforcement: A list of properties that were not connected were transferred to County Code Enforcement and Notice of Violations were issued last year in Feb. 2019. That list was about 70 properties. As of 10/1/2020, the sewer service area had a 99.2% connection status with a total of 44 properties not yet connected. Of those, one is not required to connect because there is no structure (demolished), 24 have expired building permits, and the rest have an open Code Enforcement case. Expired permits did not receive a Code Enforcement case because those properties have their own noticing process through the Building Department which, if not corrected, could result in a Notice of Violation. The County has assigned new staff in code enforcement to Los Osos. They will be reviewing the status of cases that were issued earlier last year.
So, I'm lousy at math, but 44 minus one leaves 43 outstanding non-hook-ups. And of that, 19 will be visited by Code Enforcement. That brings questions to my mind:
• Expired permits for what? Are people living in the expired permit houses? A permit to hook up is what has expired?
• What are the penalties to the 19 who, I guess, have done nothing to hook up?
Also in that informative document - this!
It is very good to get some updated sewer news. It has been way-y-y-y too quiet on the sewer front these days! It is sort of like we are flushing and forgetting....but I guess I knew that was going to happen.
Source: https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Departments/Public-Works/Forms-Documents/Committees-Programs/Los-Osos-Basin-Management-Committee-(BMC)/Agendas/2020-Agendas/2020-12-16-LOBMC-Agenda-Packet.pdf
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