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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It might be helpful to know where this is.

  The easiest answer regardless is become active in local politics, try to get into the municipal government, and allocate funds to building up infrastructure in your area.

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• wildcardology@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can governments build on private land?

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  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The short answer is no but the long answer is yes. You can fight like the old guy from Up! but in the end you’ll probably lose (YMMV because of location).

    Municipal planning though often involves spaces allocated for roads and stuff. So the plots of land don’t all border each other but imaginary roadways have already been drawn up if not built already.

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Electricity and other infrastructure is almost always built by the government on your land.

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• lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In most of America, the developer is responsible for building or updating the road infrastructure up to federal and state standards.

  Sewer, stormwater, and water infrastructure are usually somewhat shared.

  The municipality will often need to upgrade the upstream or downstream connections but the developer does their end

  Then In the great Ponzi scheme that is America, the municipality takes on the whole thing after it’s built, the developer makes all his money and runs, the suburban single family home layout takes up so much room, the municipality never makes enough taxes to maintain the infrastructure over time.

  So if you build it, they will come

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do you want to build monstrosities?

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    not sure if you’re living on earth, but there’s a ridiculous crunch on housing availability.

    Not sure that’s OP’s motivation but yeah.

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is plenty of housing. There is not enough affordable housing. And I’m not talking about giant penthouses, I’m talking about ordinary apartments that are rented out for obscene amounts of money (or rather not rented out because nobody can afford them).

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