Wellington is proposing a significant rates increase for short-term rental properties like Airbnb, sparking debate between hosts who fear financial ruin and city officials who argue it promotes fairness and generates council revenue.
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Yeah, so uh Wellington Water did a project to um to what it cost to install it all, so they did that um and that's what they put up. Um they had it reviewed by the infrastructure commission. I think the infrastructure commission wondered about the figures themselves. The new water entity has said to me that they are doubtful about those figures and that costing that they want to redo the whole thing again, which is probably the right thing to do, because it does seem to me extraordinarily costly for what they're wanting to do. Given, you know, we've seen the cost of putting water meters in other places, and I walk in them for a while now, but Carperty District has had them only in the last few years, and that the cost that that Wellington Water came with uh came out with just seems astronomical by comparison.
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