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Residents press Lake Clarke Shores for vote on septic-to-sewer conversion; council declines immediate straw-ballot motion
Summary
Residents presented a petition and asked the council to permit a resident vote on converting septic systems to sewer. Council members heard multiple requests but a motion to prepare a straw ballot for the 702 affected homes failed for lack of a second.
At the Sept. 24 council meeting multiple residents urged the Town Council of Lake Clarke Shores to allow residents to vote on a proposed conversion from septic systems to a centralized sewer system. Speakers cited a petition they said included more than 950 signatures and requested a formal resident vote particularly for the subset of about 702 homes that would bear most of the cost of hookup.
Resident Jen Chanowski told the council, "Please give the 702 homes that will be required to fund the septic to sewer conversion project a vote." Several other residents — including Tim Daughtry and Howard Goldfarb…
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