Comment 14793

By jimbob (registered) | Posted November 29, 2007 at 21:24:40

Confused,

I strongly suggest you read some of the articles on this site (you can select them by category - just read some of the 'sprawl' articles) and read info from other sources too. You will find that: a. Creating communities that are nothing but houses is not healthy. Communities should have mixed uses (residential, employment, leisure, etc) b. Building large lots that need to be serviced by roads, pipes etc increases the unit cost of these services (1 sewerage pipe for 5 big houses is more expensive to build and maintain that a pipe that services 20 row houses). The need for roads to get to a from these suburbs creates health problems for the residents and a burden on the environment. c. The property taxes paid by suburban homeowners does not cover the actual cost of the roads, pipes etc needed to service them. Also, suburban taxpayers do not contribute as much to transit taxes (transit, like education, is a service that benefits the whole community). As a result the tax burden is disproportionately placed on downtown tax payers.

Again, I won't re-hash all the articles that have demonstrated this (with facts and reports and stats...), instead I suggest you do some reading and come to your own conclusions.

Good luck!

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