Hello, folks. Check out what the gnomes at Char-Meck Storm Water Services have cooked up. Many homeowners in Charlotte will see massive increases in their storm water runoff charges.

On the high end in Charlotte you are looking at the annual fees more than doubling to over $200 a year for homes with more than 5000 square feet of hard surfaces. More modest digs of 3000 square feet up to 4999 square feet are will see a hike of over one-third. Smaller properties will see no change or a slight decrease.

Note this calculation is not heated square footage, but of all hard surfaces, including rooftops, patios, and driveways. I would love to see a percentage breakdown of all property in the county by this measure.

This is pure class warfare. Fewer people have big homes so they are the politically expedient targets to fund the correction of bad local government policy, namely allowing developers to build in floodplains for decades.