Traffic studies for the Wild Pointe development alone estimate an additional 10,490 vehicle trips per day on our already crowded roads. In most cases, residential development does not pay its own way. We will all end up paying (through taxes) for the necessary upgrades to our schools, our already overburdened sheriff's department, our fire department, as well as the necessary infrastructure to accomodate the thousands of additional vehicles projected to crowd our country roads and highways. It is a common practice for developers to donate the land to build the needed infrastructure on. However, most contribute little money towards paying for the actual costs of new schools, added law enforcement personnel, fire protection and improvments to our roads. TheSprawl Factsheet and How We Subsidize Sprawl pages offer some additional insight to the politics and policies of sprawl.