Four Brooklyn property owners will object to a special rate to seal Jones Road despite changes to the multimillion-dollar scheme.
Brimbank council has announced it will not seek – through the special charge scheme – to recover $500,000 previously incurred for drainage works at the northern end of Jones Road.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has requested that the council incorporate that decision into the scheme, which will slug property owners in the area over a 10-year period. Nine businesses will pay tens of thousands of dollars less because of the changes.
VCAT will hear objections from four Jones Road businesses that object to paying their allocated shares of the $2.7 million sealing works. Twenty-one Brooklyn businesses will pay between $91 and $638,991 for the scheme.
The special rate is calculated on factors such as land area, access and amenity.
