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Originally Posted by shermanator
I have no idea if this would be realistic, but perhaps the city should require developers to build certain infrastructure, such as schools, police stations/fire halls etc as communities are being developed? Add the cost of building those schools into the price of the home.
Want to live in a shiny new community without any existing infrastructure? Okay, it'll cost you a little extra since we have to build schools too.
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I've been saying this for ages here - someone (ie the City - Bunk?) should put together an interactive map so that when you click on a neighborhood it shows:
- What are the current feeder schools (Pub/Sep)
- At the schools at capacity? If so, where are they being bus'ed to?
- Schools, Projected date of school completion
- Nearest Firehalls / Police station - date of completion if planned for.
- Nearest Pool/Arena/Rec Center - date of completion if planned for.
- Nearest Library - date of completion if planned for.
This would be invaluable to so many people while house hunting - I've known so many people that bought that didn't really research the above before buying. I'd like to think those areas with none of the above would be less attractive to buyers and the market would vote with their feet, forcing developers to pony up for the above.