How about three meters
Actually, there already are three meters, but...
It seems like a load of crap that there are two residencies on one meter and you are still supposed to use what one household would use.
No, it makes sense, actually. You have to understand the construction of the house. It is a four-story house with the top two floors sold as a single condominium, even though each of those floors is really a separate domicile. This is because the only access to the top (fourth) floor is through the open deck area of the third floor. This meant that the third-fourth floors could only be legally defined as a single unit, thus a single meter. The bottom two floors are on their own meter already.
This living arrangement would be difficult under most circumstances, but the downstairs neighbor is a long-term (nearly 25 years) close friend of my wife, and they were next-door neighbors in California for all of that time. Privacy issues are just not... an issue.
We will be able to separate the two floors electrically, although not legally from a domicile perspective, because they are complete, separate living units (kitchen, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, etc.) occupied by separate families. Under other circumstances, CFE would not allow multiple meters for a single legally-defined residence, otherwise everybody would have multiple meters on their houses.
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