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Resident tells council appeals process for new surface-water drainage fee is not ready

2907419 · April 9, 2025
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At the April 8 Laramie City Council work session, resident Ryan Hershey said the new surface-water drainage fee scheduled for July 1 lacks an accessible appeals procedure and property data online, and urged the city to provide information and timely enforcement of downtown construction parking rules.

Ryan Hershey, a Laramie resident, told the Laramie City Council at its April 8 work session that he could not find an appeals process or property data online for the city’s new surface-water drainage fee and urged staff to publish the material before the fee takes effect.

Hershey said the city’s ordinance references an appeals procedure — “In 13.8 0.07 of that ordinance, it prescribes an order or a feature for an appeal for this tax” — but that the procedure was not accessible online. He added that the fee “is due to take effect on July 1” and said that, without published procedures and property data, thousands of residents would not have…

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