Sorry! Your answer is wrong. The cost of providing infrastructure to compact development can be much lower than for low-density development. For details, please look below at a slide from our Online Sprawl Presentation. Be sure to scroll down the page and click on the "Sources" link for further information.


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Providing services to residential development, particularly low-density development, costs towns more than they receive back in revenue. Here you see the contrast between low-density and high-density areas.

A recent study done by the HOK Planning Group for their work on the preparation of the Erie-Niagara Framework for Regional Growth showed that, over the next twenty-five years, our region could save about $800 million in capital costs -- not to mention potential ongoing operating cost savings -- by choosing a development pattern of more dense reinvestment rather than continuing with the current unplanned pattern.

 

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