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Originally Posted by Thunderball
For example, Rec Centres are a public good, sure. But if they're built in Seton or Rocky Ridge rather than the Beltline or East Village or other areas the city is aggressively (spending tens or hundreds of millions) trying to densify, aren't they promoting things like sprawl and forcing infrastructure costs since they are encouraging unsustainable and expensive expansion? Then who's "public good" are they serving? There's an equally valid counter argument the other way, but it should be clear how easy it is to bend "public good".
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Promoting urban sprawl or catching up to it out of necessity? Building out in the first place is the problem, providing proper infrastructure to the citizens that already live there is a symptom.