The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors backed down Tuesday from a proposed measure that would have imposed a parcel fee on property owners to clean up storm water pollution.

Heal The Bay, The Coalition for Our Water Future, and other groups gathered in a show of support for the ballot measure, which would add about $54 a year for most single family homes and tens of thousands of dollars for large business properties in an effort to increase the water supply.

Under the proposal, most property owners within the Los Angeles County Flood Control District – except portions of the Antelope Valley – would have been affected by the “Clean Water, Clean Beaches” measure, which supporters said would have provided $270 million in annual funding for pollution prevention, cleaning up local waterways, and replenish local aquifers with rainwater.

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