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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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We're on the same side of the debate but it's a little grayer, because there are many multifamily buildings at the city edge as well as in the inner city. The other aspect is many multifamily buildings have private waste management contracts paid through condo fees and not fully through a City of Calgary utility fee. Most don't recycle/compost.