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Originally Posted by 4X4
You latte sippers need to realize this. Not everyone works downtown. In fact, most people don't. And it's funny that you complain in the other thread about development on your inner city street tearing up the road. So it's a pain in the ass to densify the inner city, and it's evil to build on the outskirts. Jesus, is there anywhere that we're allowed to build to accommodate all the people that are buying houses in this city?
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I'm a Yop-gobbler, but I just want any new development that's built to be able to pay for the life cycle of the development. I don't see why that's so unreasonable. You're right, not everyone works downtown, but it isn't that hard to understand the average impact on the transportation system when a new development is built. The life cycle cost of the utilities going in the ground are pretty easy to estimate as well. There really isn't anything you can't approximate. So take that approximation, calculate the tax income over time, and make sure the development pays for itself. Easy peasy.