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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
In some cases, yes, having it very consolidated does lower the cost per person/land, I'll totally agree with that. I'm also not comparing a suburb house to a condo unit, I was strictly speaking of inner vs burbs. There are tons of condo's outside of the inner city and the same building outside of the inner city with the same # of units will be cheaper to service the closer to the source of the services it is, especially in an area designed to handle it from the get go.
Upgrading a inner city lot to a large condo unit typically requires services upgraded, and this all costs money too. There's a crap ton of sewage pumping stations just handling the extra flow from these buildings that have to be maintained, in addition to the upsized piping. The more you have, the more costly it becomes. Now, I also see a benefit of having 4 condo buildings on the same block so you can use one pumping station of 250hp pumps instead of spreading them out. The matter isn't as simple as everyone makes it though, services isn't just the amount of pipe/wire it takes to service one person.
I'd really like to see the city breakdown service maintenance costs for specific areas, but we likely will never get that info.
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The service upgrade costs due to development are covered by the developer.
Even a new single family redevelopment pays anywhere from 15,000 - 30,000 for utility connections depending on conditions. It's not covered through taxes. I believe large multifamily developments pay into an infrastructure fund at time of construction to cover future utility main upgrades. Don't quote me on that, maybe someone in the know can verify that.