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Originally Posted by acottawa
It is a pretty small percentage of city services that are in any way related to frontage. Plausibility local roads and sewer services. Everything else (police, fire, transit, social services, libraries, recreation) have little relation to frontage.
It is also much more expensive to do construction in urban areas, so sewer replacements, etc. are multi-year projects.
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How do you think that's true? Frontage goes hand in hand with density. All the services you mentioned above would benefit from having more residents in their catchment area from a cost effectiveness perspective. Transit is the obvious example. Imagine the per capita cost to have a bus operator drive a bus 1km down a suburban street that serves maybe 100 residents vs. driving the same 1km in Centretown where you serve 1,000.
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