So what now? One poster debunked some of the conclusions in this thread that adding 10,000 to a community like Bridlewood would result in increased infrastructure in the inner city - the water system is not set up that way.
As for transit or driving, we just can't assume those 10,000 people are all going to or through downtown and I know when we owned a business in Bridlewood that the majority of our customers did not work in the inner city or have to go through the inner city to get to work. Certainly for the school aged kids of those 10,000, they are not going to or through the inner city with maybe just a handful of exceptions.
Sewer - I still find it very difficult to believe that the CoC would take Bridlewood's sewer and pump it all the way downtown and then back to one of the three SE plants - my suspicions are that there some sewer mains that go form those deep SW communities to one of those three plants without going into the inner city.
I am only using Bridlewood as an example to thwart those that say the inner city infrastructure is affected by everything built on the edges - this may be the case for the NW or west side burbs but I would be highly suspicious that a new home in Walden would be getting it's water from a route that goes through the inner city or that's it's sewer would go all the way back into the inner city to go to one of the three sewer plants.
Maybe I'm wrong but I have a difficult time believing that every new home build on the periphery has it's sewer and water going through the inner city.
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