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Boy, did he get under their skin.

Jeromy Farkas, the councillor many at city hall love to loathe, suggests no property tax increase for four years. Zero, zero, zero, zero.

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The political poop hits the fan.

Before we give you the play-by-play from city hall’s wrestling ring, you need a little info. Hang in there.

The city hall higher-ups have a plan. In the next four years they want property taxes and fees to go up each year.

By the time you hit the year 2022, four years from now, the average Calgary home will be forking out as much as $507 more to the city.

To be clear, that’s a combination of property tax increases and higher fees.

That’s the plan city brass would like to build a four-year budget around. That budget would be jawed over in November.

And that’s what city council droned on about for many hours on Wednesday.

When they were just about finished droning, Farkas goes for zeros.

The councillor doesn’t believe it will lead to the end of the world, with garbage piling up on streets abandoned by city hall services.