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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Which services are you referring to? Technically in the SE, I'm closer to not only the power plant, but also the waste water treatment plant, the landfill, and we have our own firehall etc. I don't import services from the inner city.
On the note of sewer, most of the inner city water services require pumping to get it to the associated plant at a much higher cost, and the system is aging. Technically services in the inner city cost the city more per year than the equivalent in the burbs.
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The complex I live in has 494 units downtown, when you go out of downtown to say Tuxedo, the same land area where we have 494 unit, has 10 single family houses. There are 50 times more pipes and roads and electric lines to maintain to service the same number of properties.
Instead of 1 garbage/recycling pickup, there's 494 separate pickups.
I could go on but hopefully that helps you understand the difference in the level of costs to maintain the infrastructure.
It is massively more expensive to service SFH in the suburbs then multifamily buildings yet the differences aren't reflected reasonably in the tax rates.