Only a sewer wonk could divine what this article in the The Capital Times was about.

I don’t claim to be a sewer wonk, but I play one on TV. (And I’ve got friends who are sewer wonks.) Here’s a real clear translation of the article: It is all about continuing to shift costs onto our older neighborhoods to feed (i.e., subsidize) Mayor Pave’s Growth Machine on the outer-ring of Madison. 

The cost of servicing the ‘outer ring’ cul-de-sacs are exemplified in the two city sewer projects featured in the article:
1. Lien Rd-Nakoosa Trail [=E Towne to Stoughton Road WalMart] [E of Stoughton Rd]; and,
2. Far East Cottage Grove Rd.

Both projects are through–and for the benefit of– ‘outer ring’ aldermanic districts.

Both will impose very high public costs for the benefit of private interests.

Here’s how it happens, mathematically formulated:

C$ + CN = PB

Where C$= Cost$ borne by property taxpayers from established neighborhoods to pay for these new sewerage projects;
CN = Costs of Destruction to Nature (that which remains in our urban areas);
and,
PB = Privatized Benefits (accrued to developers of new cul-de-sacs in the outer-ring of Madison).

It is yet another bamboozlement of the electorate by the “Green” Mayor. It is a continuing sacrifice of basic services at the altar of growth for the sake of growth and nothing else. The upshot: Your bus service was sacrificed to pay for this. Homeless service providers were forced to pay for these upscale subdivisions in Mayor Pave’s new homelessness tax. What is left of our natural world in the city is being sacrificed for these cul-de-sac queens. The water you drink and the air you breathe is being sacrificed for his promotion of their selfish lifestyle.

There is no reason that we, who are living so modestly in our older neighborhoods, should go on subsidizing Mayor Pave’s extravagant McMansions at the periphery.