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Originally Posted by trueviking
we pay for people to live in the suburbs too....we all paid $55m for roads in waverly west...soon we will build new schools there, sewers, snow clearing, garbage pick up...on and on....we do not incur any more of those costs for downtown development.
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If you noticed in my very next post I stated that they weren't good reasons; I stated that this is why the majority of Winnipeg is against it. I then stated exactly what you are saying here, that suburban development patterns have been subsidized since the inception of zoning codes in all their glory.
I also gave my reason for not liking it: more subsidies are not the answer; making up for subsidizing the suburbs by subsidizing downtown will create huge expenses that the civic government can't afford. A better answer would be to charge more for suburban development.
But I agree with Rypinion -- this will not happen with the current council and, more than likely, in my lifetime.
What we need is a council that isn't funded by developers.