Comment 65622

By Kiely (registered) | Posted July 06, 2011 at 09:39:23 in reply to Comment 65604

Yep, some people don't seem to understand that you can't be a suburb of nothing.

There are many examples in the US of what happens to cities that ignore their cores: Cleveland, St.Louis, Detroit...

Urban decay rather quickly becomes suburban decay. The "first ring suburbs" in places like Cleveland have already seen this decline with once full suburban malls and neighbourhoods now resembling slums.

What these councillors need to get through their thick heads is without a dense and well populated urban core (and initiatives to develop and support it) more of the city's tax burden needs to be shifted to suburban residents. Is that what they want for their constituents?

Some suburban residents may not like or want to go downtown but unless the people in these predominantly residential areas of the city are willing to become the economic engine of the city (i.e., pay more in taxes) they better be finding some love for the urban core.

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