His work shows that local governments reap a great deal more in taxes from urban centers than from malls or "big box" retail like a Wal-Mart, except pay more to build suburban communications such as sewers and streets.
Inside the city and county of Sarasota, for example, 3.4 acres of urban housing development consumes one-tenth the land of a multi-family growth in the suburbs. But it requires little more than half of the infrastructure asset and generates 830 percent more for the county yearly in total taxes: that's $2 million from the city structure and $238,529 from the suburban one.
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