We would not need to consider levies like this if we planned our city appropriately. Decades of sprawl and low density car dependent planning has led to infrastructure debt that is difficult to fathom. We've written about it here : strongtownsottawa.ca/Infrastructu...
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A new report from the City of Ottawa says a new tax levy could help fill an infrastructure funding gap, though it stops short of explicitly recommending the idea.
