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POTOMAC, MD LIKE SIMI VALLEY--the Los Angeles suburb where a jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the Rodney King beating--Potomac is a suburban paradise...
...that even suburbanites who recognize the dimension of the inner-city problems often draw the line at paying to solve them. "It does not make sense to take the money away from good suburban schools so that you risk mediocrity everywhere," says Susan Bass Levin, mayor of the wealthy suburb of Cherry Hill, which is outside Camden. As a result of Florio's plan, she claims, her town lost $5 million in education funds in 1989. The following year Cherry Hill adopted the first in a series of annual school-tax hikes to offset the loss...
...when hard-pressed cities try to tax their citizens more to pay for needed services, it often backfires, provoking another wave of middle-class flight to suburbs where property levies are lower. Moreover, urban government's attempts to expand their revenues are often thwarted. Hartford, Connecticut, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line, has an effective property-tax rate 66% higher than that of the well-to-do suburb of Farmington next door. Last year Hartford city manager Raymond Eugene Shipman proposed a payroll tax on the thousands of commuters who flock to the city...
...reason that suburbanites are ready to circle the lawn mowers is that many of them see the cities' problems seeping into their own community. While the more distant and wealthier suburbs can still claim to be free of graffiti, gangs and drugs, urban squalor is spreading into the less fortunate towns. Wander for only a few minutes from the leafy avenues of Garden City, a New York City suburb, and you find yourself in the run-down, drug-infested apartment blocks of Hempstead. Reported robberies grew by 17% on Long Island last year. They fell by 1.6% in New York...
...Older suburbs are also suffering from a graying effect. The newlyweds who set off the baby boom are now retirees with fixed incomes but growing demands on local services. "Senior citizens tend to have an increasing need for home maintenance, transportation, meals on wheels and a host of other support services," says Patricia Paruch, the mayor of Royal Oak, a century-old suburb of Detroit, where more than 20% of the 65,000 residents are over...