Someone is listening, Misty; it seems like plenty of residents want to exercise more fiscal restraint as is evidenced by the last town meeting. Maybe it's the beginning to the end of the competition between us and Meredith for cool buildings, non-lighted signs, and the like.
I don't want town water or sewer, then I'll have town sewer and water bills, and people will have no choice but to connect to it when they have perfectly operating water and sewer contained on their own properties. That's a 'service' that's highly overrated, to me.
As to non-resident property owners' inability to vote, taxation without representation is a known drawback to owning a property at which you do not reside. Property owners in M'Boro or any other vacation town across the country are either residents or sources of revenue. Never the twain shall meet.