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inlawrev-3242	Saxer, Shelly Ross	Local Autonomy or Regionalism?: Sharing the Benefits and Burdens of Suburban Commercial Development	1997	34	.pdf	application/pdf	17183	918	49	[Vol. 30:659 Tax-base sharing among municipalities^^^ is one way to manage the inequality problem created when wealthy people escape the urban areas by moving into outlying suburbs in order to maintain a higher quality of life.^^^ Inner cities cannot survive if the needed tax base is built outside the cities and revenues are not redistributed based upon need.^^^ Contracts between local governments could allow metropolitan areas to share tax-base gains and offset regional burdens created by local land use decisions. If municipalities choose not to cooperate, they will nevertheless be held accountable to other communities for local land use decisions that result in external negative impacts.	cache/inlawrev-3242.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3242.txt