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Originally Posted by steveosnyder
Exurban development does "cost" the City less, but it costs the province more, so it's a lose-lose.
The other thing this doesn't realize is the utility the exurbanites get from the City infrastructure. But you get diminishing returns when more people use streets, so basically the exurbanites are making the City infrastructure less useful for people who pay for it.
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The thing that people often forget is that exurbanites generally live in bedroom communities. Unless it's in Springfield, these bedroom communities often have to rely quite heavily on residential property taxes for revenue. Assuming most of these people actually work in Winnipeg, you have to take into account that this benefits Winnipeg's industrial and commercial tax bases, which are taxed at a much higher rate than residential.
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