That only works if a municipality has a commercial or industrial base to tax. There are lots of bedroom communities in the USA where the main/only land use in the town is residential. In these cities, there isn’t a tax base significant enough to fund residential services.
That only works if a municipality has a commercial or industrial base to tax. There are lots of bedroom communities in the USA where the main/only land use in the town is residential. In these cities, there isn’t a tax base significant enough to fund residential services.