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Old 02-27-2013, 09:11 AM   #264
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Once that deal is struck though, the city better have some spare change around to address all of these concerns in all of the areas of the city.
Only if the City also requires these already developed communities to pay the difference between the subsidized impact fees the developers of their communities paid and the actual impact costs of the development of their communities?

If you are talking about undeveloped communities, I think the City should just have soft and hard infrastructure servicing levels that need to be met by the developers. The City sets the standards and the developers build all of the infrastructure on their dime.


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I also wanted to make a point that seems largely forgotten here. People simply don't want to raise families in multi-family dwellings. Can it be done? Of course. Some here are doing it and there is nothing wrong with that; its just that there are a lot of us who just don't want that.
Two things, i) if they can afford to live in single-family dwellings when all the costs are included, so be it; and ii) a lot of people haven't been exposed to what multi-family developments can actually look like and the lifestyles they can accommodate.
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