ESLC Vibrant Towns Presentation

Last week I was in Maryland to deliver one of the two keynote speaches at the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy's Vibrant Towns conference. It was a tremendous opportunity to share a Strong Towns message with some of Maryland's leaders and get some very helpful feedback in the process. The podcast this week is the audio from the speach, which is a variation of our Curbside Chat presentation.

ESLC Vibrant Towns

Comments

[Frank Starkey]

I'm enjoying the talk. Can you post your slides so we can follow along at home?

[J Scheppers]

Great presentation,

I would try to add some explaination by citing the huge problem of capital cost providers being from far away(Feds and to some degree states). It encourages localities to ignore the depreciation of assets. In my view if these real depreciation costs were shown on the local government books, it would bring a lot of light to the issue. I do agree that this cost analysis of the future costs is important. However; engineers and planners create maintenance estimate that can easily call for A plus maintenance when C- maintenance leads to the marginal costs equaling the marginal benefit (hopefully the optimal solution).