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Old 09-16-2013, 01:06 PM   #1185
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh View Post
A growth-oriented municipality
This is the issue. The City should be striving to be a development-oriented municipality rather than a growth-oriented municipality. Growing should not be the end goal but rather a means to an end. It doesn't make much sense for the City to grow its tax-base when the amount of taxes brought in will not exceed the public-borne development costs before the end of the infrastructure in the development's life cycle.
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