Limiting growth, one water meter at a time A California community decided that the best way to limit growth was to put a moratorium on water meters, meaning nobody could put up a new house, anywhere in town.
Okay, but it doesn’t take an econ major to guess at what ended up happening. Sales prices went through the roof, over the years. Oh, but not the sales prices of homes, but sales prices of … water meters.
(L)ate last month, a water meter was auctioned for $310,000. For that, the buyer didn’t get a house, or even land on which to build a house – just the right to hook up to the municipal water supply, which comes from the Arroyo Honda, a spring-fed creek about five miles north of town.
This kind of puts the town in the old “Catch 22”.
The irony of the sale by a nonprofit group is not lost on residents in this community of 1,600. “The water meter money is being used for affordable housing, but the reason there’s so little affordable housing in the first place is the water meters,” said Dieter Tremp, an artist who lives in Bolinas.
Ironic is one word for it!
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2 Beds
1 | 1 Baths
750 SqFt
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1 Baths
1,045 SqFt
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1,174 SqFt
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1,675 SqFt
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1,000 SqFt
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1,390 SqFt
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1,500 SqFt
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1,179 SqFt
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1,203 SqFt
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1,221 SqFt
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1,250 SqFt
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1,066 SqFt
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1,905 SqFt
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1,459 SqFt
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1,016 SqFt
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1 Baths
1,200 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,440 SqFt
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2 Beds
2 Baths
1,708 SqFt
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1,120 SqFt
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1,342 SqFt
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1 Baths
1,124 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,031 SqFt
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4 Beds
3 | 1 Baths
2,626 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,173 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,425 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,422 SqFt
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1,072 SqFt
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1,540 SqFt
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1,164 SqFt
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1,378 SqFt
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1,301 SqFt
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1,656 SqFt
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1,256 SqFt
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1,068 SqFt
2 Beds
1 Baths
1,155 SqFt
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2 Beds
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1,416 SqFt
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1,550 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,301 SqFt
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2 Beds
2 Baths
1,085 SqFt
3 Beds
2 Baths
2,601 SqFt
2 Beds
2 Baths
1,085 SqFt
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2 Beds
2 Baths
1,406 SqFt
2 Beds
2 Baths
1,554 SqFt
2 Beds
2 | 1 Baths
1,255 SqFt
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1,255 SqFt
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1,379 SqFt
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2,485 SqFt
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2 Baths
1,715 SqFt
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2 Beds
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1,374 SqFt
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2,771 SqFt
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1,859 SqFt
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2,808 SqFt
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3,640 SqFt
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2,336 SqFt
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1,997 SqFt
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4,122 SqFt
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