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Originally Posted by special-K

It's the American way. All about beans. Baltimore is long gone, too. But I find to hard to believe it can cost 2-3 times more to update what already exists than all the expense to demolish, dispose, excavate/grade, permits/Engineering/fees/sometimes studies, build at today's costs, and outfit with what was needed to upgrade the old place. Something wrong with this picture. I was just talking to a friend who is developing 7 lots about the crazy fees. dry wells are required for rain water drainage off the roof. Generally 4 holes and engineering costs about $6k per hole. His require 6, so 42 x $6,000 right there. Then the county wants something like that to study and approve. It goes on and on from there.

I think the tear downs are more about clearing the land to sell off to be developed for another use.

And that's the problem causing the Crumbling infrastructure