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Originally Posted by Dan02
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.
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There's also the example of fire services. A singly fire hydrant downtown can service hundreds of people given the density. A hydrant in the burbs may service / reach 1/4 of that amount of people. That required water infrastructure (and its costs) doesn't just magically appear out of thin air.