The City Council's 4-3 vote to create three new staff positions to carry out the ordinance requiring new businesses to capture rainwater for outdoor landscaping came over the objections of Mayor Regina Romero. She said the positions should have been…
Tony Davis All seven members of the all-Democratic Tucson City Council have agreed the city must improve enforcement of its law requiring commercial developments to harvest rainwater and use less drinking water on landscaping.
The City Manager's Office is scheduled to release its proposed budget on April 19. Opponents of the immediate job creation — Romero and council members Lane Santa Cruz and Nikki Lee — all said they strongly support better enforcement of the harvesting ordinance, but that the city shouldn't create the jobs before all budgetary needs are considered.
The council acted with equal unanimity in 2012 when it approved rebates of up to $2,000 to help homeowners buy cisterns for water harvesting for their gardens and trees. That report also found, and a subsequent city analysis agreed, that large majorities of commercial projects studied were using far more than 50% drinkable city water supplies on landscaping. The city concluded that from 2016 through 2020, nearly half of 41 projects it reviewed were"grossly out of compliance" with the 50% requirement.
But while agreeing with the need for these new jobs, she said,"I would say that it is a very slippery slide that includes hiring staff outside the budgeting process for all the departments."
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