[nixcity]

Right on Bevo and Jdawg, as I have spoken with Jdawg many times is the simple fact that we need that tax money coming in to help what they can do with the budget which just means more services for the city. It also makes it easier to not raise taxes to get even just the needed improvements and expansions to continue to remain healthy. We can get the money from dense areas or have them continue to take large swaths of land to create CRAPPPP (the development that has dominated this country really since the 50's and 60's), which are set up for failure with the cheap materials they use and the fact they don't maintain them well. They are doomed for ghettodom in anywhere from 10-30 years into the future. You can look at the rings/loops around all cities and metro areas (even our lovely models of density NYC, Chicago and the like) which just pushes for the population to push further and further out to get that white picket fence life promised to us by Leave it to Beaver, lol.