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Urban development planning application: The city of Asheville is faced with a severe budget shortage. Seeking a long-term solution, the city council votes to improve the tax base by condemning an inner-city housing area and replacing it with a modern development. The project involves two phases: (1) demolishing substandard houses to provide land for the new development and (2) building the new development. The following is a summary of the situation. 1. As many as 300 substandard houses can be demolished. Each house occupies a .25-acre lot. The cost of demolishing a condemned house is $2000. 2. Lot sizes for new single-, double-, triple-, and quadruple-family homes (units) are .18, .28, .4, and .5 acre, respectively. Streets, open space, and utility easements account for 15% of available acreage. 3. In the new development, the triple and quadruple units account for at least 25% of the total. Single units must be at least 20% of all units, and double units at least 10%. 4. The tax levied per unit for single, double, triple, and quadruple units is $1000, $1900, $2700, and $3400, respectively. 5. The construction cost per unit for single-, double-, triple-, and quadruple-family homes is $50,000, $70,000, $130,000, and $160,000, respectively. 6. Financing through a local bank is limited to $15 million.

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