MAC FARR

Lastly, I want to talk about why this matters. Detroit, from a long term financial perspective, needs a much bigger tax base. We will only achieve that by making sure that our population is growing at a sustained clip for the next half century or so. The more residents, tax payers, rate payers and businesses we have here, the more growth we will see in tax receipts. And the more revenue we see going into city coffers translates to more sidewalks, more housing programs, more police and fire protection, more investment into our water and drainage infrastructure.