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Old 04-26-2013, 11:24 AM   #321
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh View Post
You've got to stop saying "subsidizing". Nobody is subsidizing new communities. $300M came to the City budget from developers in 2012 in various fees, levies and transfers; check the numbers published in Herald yesterday. Infrastructure is owned by the City once it's built. We are fortunate that people want to live here. There are so many cities where nobody wants to move to and nobody wants to develop anything. Those cities actually paying all of their development costs themselves (100% taxpayer-funded), just to get something going.
I think we've found Mr. Wenzel's CP account...
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