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Originally Posted by Slava
This is again where it becomes a 'be careful what you wish for' situation I think. Put that through and you can't complain about sprawl or needing to fund fire stations or whatever else. Its a politically motivated way to attack the so-called slate.
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In a way, you're kind of right. Capital costs are just the tip of the subsidy iceberg - we really should be dealing with overall lifecycle costs, but we can't really do that under the terms of the current Municipal Government Act. We shouldn't be selling the development levy increase as a silver bullet, because it's just a small step in the right direction.