This piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune makes a case for greater density and higher quality buildings as a way for communities to generate the tax base that they need in order to pay for the maintenance and repair of the infrastructure that they have. Going forward, municipalities need to grow in more incremental and higher-density ways to ensure that they don't overbuild their infrastructure; to charge development fees in order to have the funds necessary to maintain their infrastructure; to stop devoting so much of their land to low-density, low-quality development; and to take out under-utilized infrastructure and use the public right-of-way for other economic, environmental or community purposes:
http://www.startribune.com/streetscapes-the-true-costs-of-sprawl/330417251/
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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has a related story about the down-side of Big Box stores that references Joe Minicozzi's work. The article also includes a local example from Cottage Grove.
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https://ilsr.org/dark-store-tax-tactic-makes-big-box-stores-terrible-deal-for-cities/