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> It should be standardized

No thank you. New York City doesn’t need a federal bureaucracy to be checked into every time a building goes up or a pipeline gets laid. And the level of detail which is necessary for New York would be overkill for rural counties; they have better things to spend their tax dollars on.



A building going up or a pipeline getting laid necessitates an enormous amount of government activities. The idea of having a simple standardized output would be just too onerous is absolute nonsense.

Further, saying that the detail necessary for NYC is overkill for a rural county is just bunk. Yes, of course NYC would have more detail. Do you think a rural county is going to be overloaded plotting their dozen streets?

The whole "better things with tax dollars" bit is really the cherry on the top.


> * The idea of having a simple standardized output would be just too onerous is absolute nonsense*

This complicated thing is already so complicated, it couldn’t possibly hurt to add even more complexity!




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