Should urban tax rates be high enough to provide sewer systems in all neighborhoods?
" 'Will you provide sewer and water, a fire truck, a snowplow?' " "We're not afraid of growth," she added, "but we have to manage it smartly".
The larger companies employ about 1,200 people and have held billions of dollars in contracts with the city over the years — to provide sewer and water pipes, repair bridges and roads, and clean up the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Renegotiation often means that parts of the contract, like obligations to provide sewers to go with water distribution, are cut or scaled back, sometimes causing environmental difficulties.
He said the city's plans would create 5,300 new jobs; provide sewers, water lines and roads; and create a vibrant commercial hub that would generate billions in lost investment.
As borough president in the early 1990s, Ms. Shulman rejected as shortsighted a city economic development study that said development would flourish on its own if the city provided sewers and basic services to the area.
St . Petersburgis going even further, saying it will provide roads, sewer hookups and schools on some 1,300 acres of forest land at the north end of the city, to be called Severnaya Dolina (Northern Valley), so developers can build hundreds of condos and houses.
For instance, Mr. Asciolla said, Helmetta provides a sewer operator to Jamesburg and animal control for several surrounding towns, and in return Jamesburg provides it with a court administrator and some police coverage.
An $11 million town project to provide access to sewer lines will not cover the whole lakeside and will not be finished for several years.
And because sewers provide the underpinning for development — from homes to highways to businesses — the rules provide a vital blueprint for what the state may look like for years to come.
Because of an editing error, the Big City column on Friday, about House of Spices, one of the businesses in Willets Point, Queens, that are suing the city over its failure to provide services like sewers to the neighborhood, misspelled the owner's surname at one point in some copies.
