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Ypsilanti Council Approves Street Light Conversion Fee

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Ypsilanti land owners will soon be paying more money for street lighting.  The money will be used to help pay for 500 new LED streetlights through out the city, though 

  Ypsilanti already has around 300 LED streetlights. 

The Ypsilanti City Council approved a special assessment fee at this week's  meeting that will charge residents around $120 over the next two years for each parcel of land they own. The city will replace older sodium and mercury-vapor lights with more efficient, longer-lasting LEDs.

This special assessment district would cost property owners in Ypsilanti about $58 each year for two years  to cover the cost of replacing the lights.  City-owned property and property owned by Eastern Michigan University would be exempt.
 

 

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