Great PD letter by Mark Timieski against costs of sprawl
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:47 pm
Observers,
Lakewood's own Mark Timieski has a great letter printed in today's Plain Dealer advocating against the costs of sprawl.
See his letter here: http://www.cleveland.com/letters/plaind ... xml&coll=2
Mark correctly points out that while developers and residents moving to the exurban fringe get a short-term (one-time) boost, costs end up coming back and biting us all through stretching thin our tax dollars over new (in exurbia) and aging (in the old urban core) infrastructure.
There has to be a better way--and there is: revitalizing Lakewood, making us strong. Let's target ways to keep our "starter home-buyers" here, not leaking away to Avon and Medina.
Lakewood's own Mark Timieski has a great letter printed in today's Plain Dealer advocating against the costs of sprawl.
See his letter here: http://www.cleveland.com/letters/plaind ... xml&coll=2
Mark correctly points out that while developers and residents moving to the exurban fringe get a short-term (one-time) boost, costs end up coming back and biting us all through stretching thin our tax dollars over new (in exurbia) and aging (in the old urban core) infrastructure.
There has to be a better way--and there is: revitalizing Lakewood, making us strong. Let's target ways to keep our "starter home-buyers" here, not leaking away to Avon and Medina.