ABSTRACT
The costs of development include not only the construction costs of buildings (houses, shops, offices, etc.) but also the costs of the services and facilities which are needed to serve these. Sewage disposal, water supply, and other utilities are the most immediately obvious, but the full list ranges much more widelyhighways, schools, day-care centers, hospitals and other social services, public transit, the provision of housing (or transportation) for low-income workers needed to service the development, and so on. Who is to pay for these? and how?—the existing property owners through their property taxes, the developers through exactions, the new residents through special assessments? The possibilities are theoretically almost endless and, not surprisingly, the whole subject bristles with difficulty and controversy.
