Corpus Christi apartment residents could receive a fraction of the water allocated to single-family homeowners if the city enters a Level 1 water emergency, according to concerns raised at a recent city council meeting.
Under the proposed plan, apartment buildings would be treated like any other commercial business — a classification that property managers say fails to account for how apartment residents actually use water.
Apartment residents could get less water than homeowners under current Level 1 Water Emergency plan
“Apartment residents would be expected to live on roughly one quarter of the water allocated to other Corpus Christi residents,” Nicole Harmon, Vice President of the Corpus Christi Apartment Association, said at the June 2nd city council meeting.
Cliff Colwell, manager of SPV Property Management, said the people affected are essential members of the community…