[Hack&Lube]

Unchecked urban sprawl is unhealthy for this city and a burden on your taxes.

All those people that complain about the lack of snow removal, the thinning of services, etc. have to realize the reason that these systems are getting stretched thin is the ever-expanding roads and utilities that need to be built out to the fringes of the city and beyond.

The more sprawl the city gets, the more roads and pipelines and infrastructure that need to be built out for fewer and fewer people that actually use it and the more it costs everybody. That's just what happens when you increase the surface area of the city but decrease the density.

Spend the money on upgrading existing infrastructure, encourage builders to focus on more urban redevelopment, etc. and you have a much more beautiful, diverse, and sustainable city with public infrastructure that more people can take advantage of.

We are not building a Hong Kong Calgary, but I'd much rather have a Vancouver or Toronto like Calgary than an Houston or LA Calgary.

-edit yeah, Houston/LA sprawl is a better representation of what I was trying to say. And I would definitely want to avoid the sprawl and stupid traffic that is the GTA but most of the GTA towns have their own municipal governments.