Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Building a Water Plant? Funding Nightmares Exposed! #shorts

14 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Tommy Dobczyk addresses participants in a deal‑room meeting about the complex funding and regulatory hurdles that arise when planning a new water‑treatment plant. He explains that if a portion of the project is built and designated as a city street, the associated “first‑use” rules and city adoption change the applicable regulations, preventing certain funds from being used for that infrastructure. Consequently, the choice of where and how to build directly determines which financing sources are eligible, creating a “nightmare” of funding constraints for the overall water‑treatment system.

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Are you in the deal room? And well, I don't know if these actually, like, out here have septic or sewer. So if we have to make a water treatment plant here for this, let's say we have to make a water treatment plant for the whole thing. If I build a water treatment, if we build just this, then we build the water treatment plant and plug into this. When I build this, I can't do that. Doing it the way Adam wants to do it, if I build, if I build to here and I do all this part right here, I can't get any of the other funds to pay for that. Like, I can't get this fund to now pay for that because it— this, this part right here is part of that. And so it won't cover the infrastructure because it's already been adopted by the city. So these are now city streets, and it, it changes the regulations that I need to follow based on first use.