To the editor:

(This letter was addressed to the mayor of the city of Cape Coral)

I am a lot owner and just received a card indicating that I will be expecting to pay in the neighborhood of $20,000 for sewer service even though I haven’t a home or any use of the service.

Are you kidding, how do you expect me to pay the exorbitant taxes I already have to pay and now also pay for something I don’t need or want in addition?

When I build a home I’d expect to pay a reasonable amount to avail myself of the sewer service, but not before.

You are forcing me to have to dump my property on an already disastrous market just to get rid of what was to be our dream retirement homesite.

How can you expect someone to pay for sewers for vacant land?

Please rethink how this project is being financed and do something for lot owners who are planning on making Cape Coral their homes in the future, but are asking to pay for something the same as someone who lives and will actually take advantage of the improvements you are making.

The logic of charging owners of empty lots for sewer service is the same as charging us tolls for roads we don’t drive on and bridges we don’t cross.

Franz P. Kirsch

Northport, N.Y.