The Chapel Hill Town Council must've changed its battle cry from ”Affordable Housing” to ”Unaffordable Hosing”.
What is a Town Council to do in times of extreme and/or exceptional financial drought? Cut costs?? No! Postpone projects? Are you nuts? No!! What the Chapel Hill Town Council does is apply an “unaffordable hosing” (see Phictionary) to its property tax paying minions!
The Town Council is always making happy cumbayah talk about the “need for affordable housing” out of one side of their mouths. It's frightful that ordinary people (not the vaunted Town Council people, of course, have such a difficult time finding a place to live in Chapel Hill. But now that the bill has come due for such Council approved items as a “pimped out” “high performance green” building known as the $40,000,000, (no, wait - make that $52,000,000) Town “High Maintenance Center” - (you know the one with a cool $500,000 art piece), expanded “free” busing system, and an aquatics center (that's a swimming pool on steroids, but not quite as high end as a natatorium) - the Town Council is left with no alternative than to raise town property taxes a whopping ten percent to pay for it. (See Hot Orange Town Tax Story.)
That's right folks. Who cares if the cost of living adjustments most folks get as their annual raise in southern Orange (such as those working at UNC) is hovering around 2 to 3 percent? We're talking quality of life!
Retired, on a fixed income? The size of the hosing is all that's bigger folks!. We're talking sacrifice here baby - not the council's, yours!
Let's put Councilman Greene on fixing this one. Remember her? $50,000 and spending to get a zoning ordinance written!
First, you must conserve water to continue growth for OWASA and the local developers in a time of meteorological drought. Now you must conserve your income to continue growth for your local town budgets in a time of “blingage” drought. It's good to be a tax-exempt organization!
So, next time you hear our beloved local representatives prattle on about “affordable housing”, get out your tax bill, your favorite balm, and your wallet. What they really are talking about is “unaffordable hosing”.
