{"id":268,"date":"2009-06-07T19:45:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-06-07T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T19:59:43","slug":"sanitary-sprawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/sanitary-sprawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanitary Sprawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a sewer wonk could divine what this article in the The Capital Times<\/a> was about.<\/p>\n

I don’t claim to be a sewer wonk, but I play one on TV. (And I’ve got friends who are sewer wonks.) Here’s a real clear translation of the article: It is all about continuing to shift costs onto our older neighborhoods to feed (i.e., subsidize) Mayor Pave’s Growth Machine on the outer-ring of Madison.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cost of servicing the ‘outer ring’ cul-de-sacs are exemplified in the two city sewer projects featured in the article:
\n1. Lien Rd-Nakoosa Trail [=E Towne to Stoughton Road WalMart] [E of Stoughton Rd]; and,
\n2. Far East Cottage Grove Rd.<\/p>\n

Both projects are through–and for the benefit of– ‘outer ring’ aldermanic districts.<\/p>\n

Both will impose very high public costs for the benefit of private interests.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it happens, mathematically formulated:<\/p>\n

C$ + CN = PB<\/p>\n

Where C$= Cost$ borne by property taxpayers from established neighborhoods to pay for these new sewerage projects;
\nCN = Costs of Destruction to Nature (that which remains in our urban areas);
\nand,
\nPB = Privatized Benefits (accrued to developers of new cul-de-sacs in the outer-ring of Madison).<\/p>\n

It is yet another bamboozlement of the electorate by the “Green” Mayor. It is a continuing sacrifice of basic services at the altar of growth for the sake of growth and nothing else. The upshot: Your bus service was sacrificed to pay for this. Homeless service providers were forced to pay for these upscale subdivisions in Mayor Pave’s new homelessness tax<\/a>. What is left of our natural world in the city is being sacrificed for these cul-de-sac queens. The water you drink and the air you breathe is being sacrificed for his promotion of their selfish lifestyle.<\/p>\n

There is no reason that we, who are living so modestly in our older neighborhoods, should go on subsidizing Mayor Pave’s extravagant McMansions at the periphery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madison continues its subsidization of outer-ring aldermanic districts; this time via extravagant sewerage projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,56,12,8,1],"tags":[16,37,21,128,29,130,96,129],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-health","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-suck","category-uncategorized","tag-add-new-tag","tag-consumption","tag-greenwash","tag-madison-metropolitan-sewerage-district","tag-mayor-pave","tag-outer-ring","tag-subsidy","tag-wisconsin-department-of-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}