Passage of Measure B now enables the City Council to generate a study on the cost of trash collection services and subsequently vote to charge a fee to recover those costs of solid waste management services to eligible properties. For the last 100 years, in accordance with an initiative adopted in 1919, most single-family homes have been exempt from having to pay a collection fee while most condominiums, apartments and businesses have been charged. The League believes that consumers must expect to pay some of the costs of waste management and that the government should maintain an equitable system of taxation. Allowing owners of single-family homes to be exempt from a fee while everyone else pays creates a basic inequity. The League supports policies to reduce the generation of trash and to promote reuse and recycling.
Read LWV San Diego President Kim Knox's
speech about the Measure B campaign for the 2023 Zero Waste Symposium.