In the end there's no dodging the cost of civic services. Some cynics observe that the big problem seems to be urban expansion without sufficient contribution from newcomers to pay for the infrastructure they demand. Previously adequate amenities become strained by the extra load, forcing upgrades/expansions whose cost is spread across all taxpayers, even those living in areas whose amenities were planned and completed decades ago by then taxpayers.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
