{"id":488090,"date":"2026-10-07T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488090\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:58:08","slug":"san-diego-delays-vote-on-new-water-rates-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488090\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Delays Vote On New Water Rates | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego City Council on Tuesday pushed back a decision on a proposed overhaul to water rates that would raise monthly bills for most single-family homeowners while lowering costs for multi-family apartment buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with three absent council members and a tight margin, Council President Joe LaCava moved to delay the final vote until\u00a0Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s proposal aims to bring San Diego into compliance with\u00a0Proposition 218 reports the U\/T, a 1996 statewide voter initiative regulating local government fees. Prop 218 strictly requires water agencies to charge customers no more than the direct, proportional cost of serving them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego City Council on Tuesday pushed back a decision on a proposed overhaul to water rates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[66938,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-488090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}