3 ms·
The infrastructure necessary to build suburbs is expensive: roads, water, sewer, electric, etc. It takes a very long time to pay off in taxes. Denser areas bri
by anon84873628 3y ago
The infrastructure necessary to build suburbs is expensive: roads, water, sewer, electric, etc. It takes a very long time to pay off in taxes.
Denser areas bring in more tax revenue with fewer miles of infrastructure. There are good Strong Towns articles about this.
Rural areas have the same problem, but often the houses are on wells and septic tanks. The roads are simpler and cheaper and can get by with less maintenance.
- jjav 3y ago> The infrastructure necessary to build suburbs is expensive I'm not sure it's so simple. Yes, a mile of underground services (water, sewer, etc) in NYC serves orders of magnitude more people than a mile of underground services in some suburb. But, digging up a mile of underground services in NYC also costs billions of dollars, whereas a similar dig out in the suburbs can be done by a few people and a small digger in far less time and doesn't cost much because there's nothing near or above it.