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Is this what you're referring to: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1
by NPMaxwell 8y ago
Is this what you're referring to: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason-your-city-has-no-money https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason... ?
"All of the programs and incentives put in place by the federal and state governments to induce higher levels of growth by building more infrastructure has made the city of Lafayette functionally insolvent. Lafayette has collectively made more promises than it can keep and it's not even close. If they operated on accrual accounting -- where you account for your long term liabilities -- instead of a cash basis -- where you don't -- they would have been bankrupt decades ago."
- Gibbon1 8y agoThat's absolutely it. One of my observations living in SF. And having watched northern California sprawl for 50 years is this. There are real downsides to living in a dense city. Probably 20,000 people per square mile. That is made far far worse by the surrounding sprawl. And the people living in the low density suburbs aren't having it that much better. Oh you can go from place to place fast, but the places are farther away. And it it cancels unless you're on the edge.