{"id":72590,"date":"2017-06-15T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sanitation-district-taking-another-look-at-infrastructure-costs-is-important\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T23:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T23:03:12","slug":"sanitation-district-taking-another-look-at-infrastructure-costs-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sanitation-district-taking-another-look-at-infrastructure-costs-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanitation district: Taking another look at infrastructure costs is important"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=351ba07c-e3e6-45ca-ae05-f45f5010d6a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"500\" height=\"444\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While some of them don\u2019t remember high up-front investments for sewer services as a reason hotels have not located in Cortez, that is an issue that has been discussed before, nearly every time new rates have been set.<\/p>\n<p>And while the cost of connection to the wastewater-treatment infrastructure, as well as the eventual replacement of that infrastructure, must be covered, the fee should not influence potential business owners to build elsewhere instead. That is counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting information from communities with comparable needs, and receiving public input \u2013 potentially including input from hotel owners who have researched costs to build in other communities \u2013 is a good place to start. No fee structure will make everyone happy, and that\u2019s not the sanitation district\u2019s job.<\/p>\n<p>If Cortez can\u2019t be competitive in economic development because of sewer plant investment fees, then something is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>du1-i-syn While some of them don\u2019t remember high up-front investments for sewer services as a reason hotels have not located in Cortez, that is an issue that has been discussed before, nearly every time new rates have been set. And while the cost of connection to the wastewater-treatment infrastructure, as well as the eventual replacement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72590"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}