MEASURE B

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fROM "THE VOICE OF SAN DIEGO" The Biggest Deal Measure B: The city of San Diego is the only city in the region that collects trash without a special fee. If you can get your bins to a city-maintained street, the city will collect the refuse and recycling. However, most apartment and condo-dwellers had to pay private haulers. That inequity and arguments about it have been part of the city’s political conversation for decades. But this year, voters decided to allow the city to start charging a fee. That does not mean a fee is coming anytime soon. The City Council will have to commission a study about what the service really costs and then decide how much it wants to charge and that will depend on what services it wants to offer. It could take years and the Council members may not want to implement a fee until they are safely through the next round of elections. Regardless, Measure B changed San Diego more than anything else this year.

Richard Anthony

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