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Originally Posted by TakeFive
The article has a few interesting tidbits worth checking out.
So not only the state but the cities (and presumably counties) are gasping for road maintenance funds. Not quite sure how cities would troll for tolls though? |
We have no problem funding infrastructure for new development, which is vastly more expensive. The difference is, we do it before there are voters. Lack of infrastructure funding is a political problem, nothing more. When it gets bad enough, people will vote for property taxes. And the problem will be solved.
I drop 50 mills on a new development to fund infrastructure alone and nobody blinks, and it still turns out to be more affordable than anything in Denver proper. The fact that the entire mill levy in Denver is only 80-something-mills - half what some suburban jurisdictions pay - is almost criminal. But that'll change, and it'll be for the better.