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Council weighs infrastructure priorities: water meter modernization and permitting coordination
Summary
Councilors discussed modernizing the water-meter system, streamlining permitting across planning/building/public works, and consolidating city and county planning staff to speed development review.
Baker City — City staff and councilors used the Feb. 25 work session to discuss infrastructure priorities, notably a multi-year plan to modernize water meters and steps to reduce delays in the development-review process.
Staff described a proposed conversion of roughly 4,300 water meters to electronic reads. The draft approach discussed at the meeting would phase the conversion across approximately four years, replacing meters in two zones per year so costs and replacements occur in a…
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