Tensions in a small Clutha town, where residents pay vastly different levies from those set 25 years ago.
The Waipori Falls Village- which has about 33 properties- attempted to have a meeting to resolve the problem on the weekend, but got nowhere.
Clutha mayor Bryan Cadogan says there's vast discrepancies in costs that aren't reflecting what a leaseholder should pay.
He says the first landholders did their due diligence years ago when the houses were first sold off.
"That's the real problem, we're carrying through a private deal from 30 years ago that now has the huge unintended consequences."
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