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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by zozbot123 on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:47PM (#18780819)
>What about the electric grid? Water and sewer? Schools, parking, trash pickup, etc.

Property taxes can pay for these updates once the additional housing is built, it's self-financing. (Of course this won't work in CA, due to Prop 13. But then again, it was a ballot initiative, and those crazy folks in California voted for it. It's all self-inflicted pain on their part.)

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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo... by closeparen on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:57AM (#18790031)
The usual response here is that existing residents shouldn’t be taxed to pay for later arrivals’ infrastructure needs.
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