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Five local homeowners are suing the city of San Diego and six City Council members over the city’s trash collection fee, with one attorney calling it a “bait and switch.” They allege, in a lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court this week, that it is unlawful because the proposed fee exceeds the costs of providing trash services. The suit states that the city has proposed a nearly $48 monthly fee that should be determined by actual costs, but is instead “based on projection