{"id":14152,"date":"2016-05-05T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2016-05-05T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:43:32","slug":"condo-residents-feel-short-changed-on-municipal-water-system-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/condo-residents-feel-short-changed-on-municipal-water-system-councillor\/","title":{"rendered":"Condo residents \u201cfeel short changed\u201d on municipal water system: Councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aurora has tight controls and regulations on the quality of water that comes into your homes through the municipal system, but when the municipal system ends \u2013 so too do the Town\u2019s responsibilities.<\/p>\n

In the cases of condominium developments, however, where the responsibility ends can be a bit murkier and some Council members are calling for clarity.<\/p>\n

Councillors once again raised these concerns at last week as they approved increases to the municipal water rate. The quality of water once the municipal system transfers to a system under the jurisdiction of a condo board is a concern Councillor Tom Mrakas says has been raised with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur [water liability] stops at the property line and the condo board takes over,\u201d said Councillor Mrakas. \u201cThere is quite a bit of concern among the residents who live in these condos. They feel, at the end of the day, they pay the same taxes as everyone else and they feel like they are being short-changed as far as safe water and the responsibility the Town has.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I look at it, with a regular condo building, I can understand the responsibility ends when it gets to the building, but a development \u2013 even though it is called a condo — is still almost a subdivision in my mind, and I feel maybe we should look at changing some policies because we should [be] making sure water is safe for those residents. They pay their share of taxes to the Town. I think it is something we need to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Geoff Dawe said this is an issue he has also heard, adding Ilmar Simanovskis, Aurora\u2019s Director of Infrastructure and Environmental Services, has his department looking at the matter \u201cto make sure [condo boards] are aware of their responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, it is more of a case of the agreement than anything else,\u201d said Mayor Dawe. \u201cMy responsibility at my house is from the property line in. In this particular instance, the property line is somewhat farther away. I can see that there is ample opportunity for confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

At last week\u2019s meeting, Councillors also called for further information to be distributed to residents across the Town on the water rate increases imposed on Aurora by the Region of York. While this year\u2019s water rate brochure is pretty much a done deal to be distributed with this year\u2019s water bills, there is some \u201clong range communication\u201d plans in the works, said Town Treasurer Dan Elliott.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora has tight controls and regulations on the quality of water that comes into your homes through the municipal system, but when the municipal system ends \u2013 so too do the Town\u2019s responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3Gg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:42:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}