The city is offering municipal infrastructure and streamlining the regulatory apparatus as needed.

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And he can use his power and influence to facilitate new building while improving municipal infrastructure to encourage economic growth and population expansion.

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Most municipal infrastructure projects tend to be conservative and follow the last 100 years of water management policy: centralized processing and hard infrastructure.

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Second, unlike the Prius, EV owners have to overcome the range anxiety of owning a vehicle with a 100-mile range without the benefit of a widespread municipal charging infrastructure.

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For citizens of these targeted states, it will mean long delays and much higher costs in the planning and building of highway projects, water projects and any other kind of municipal or state infrastructure development.

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An infrastructure bank is unprecedented on the municipal level, and may become a critical model for how cities pay for new building.

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Municipal finance, in support of U.S. infrastructure, creates more job growth versus other spending measures, and removing tax exemption would result in higher financing costs for states and local governments.

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States pay low interest rates on their own municipal bonds so that they can curb costs of new buildings and infrastructure.

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Most municipal debt is managed responsibly, and some debt is oftentimes necessary to address basic infrastructure needs at a time when interest rates are favorable and construction costs are lower.

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