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Old 03-27-2012, 01:55 PM   #2201
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Originally Posted by Bunk View Post
That's only capital costs, the operational costs are not considered in that calculation. The problem being that if a community isn't well designed and efficiently laid out, operational costs for things like transit are ridiculously high - hence the push for greater density and better, more 'complete' communities (lowers operating costs substantially).
During research for my dissertation I really began to notice the impact of operational costs. While fixing the development levies is pretty simply (i.e. 100% cost recovery), numerous public goods are tied into the operational costs and the solution will require a more complex calculation.
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