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Members urge tracking net new accounts to measure real growth
Summary
Committee members asked staff to develop or extract a report showing net new accounts (true growth) rather than meter swaps or redevelopment, so growth-based fee calculations reflect actual new development.
Committee member S2 asked for a generational report that distinguishes net new accounts from meter swaps or redevelopment so the city can better measure growth. "Some generational report ideally would have units of unit new new accounts — new accounts," S2 said, arguing that the current tables show permit activity but do not directly report net new taps.
Staff responded that permit and application records (account numbers, receipt numbers) can likely be used to reconcile whether a change represents an existing account upsizing or a true new tap. Members agreed extracting that detail from existing data would be preferable to creating a separate dataset and asked staff to explore whether the existing permit fields can provide the needed net-growth metric.
