SimTeaneck

When you play simcity, if you havent, you should..youfind that when you zone large areas of land Residential, the area begin to populate.. then become vacant.. familes move out and your simcity begins to loose money. In the games strategy it tells you "Try building more commercial an industrial zones" Once these commercial areas are placed (and the game recommends you build parks at the same time as to not ruin the inherent beauty of your city. Once these zones are in place you begin to see your citys account move out of the red, residential areas begin to raise in value.
The real world algorithm is not too far off. For all those who commute to other cities to work, not that 28 pounds of carbon dioxide is let off per gallon of gas consumed. How wonderfull would it be to be able to look for work in our backyard? how wonderful would it be to have our tax burden spread so that living in our city is affordable.
Any new commercial building in teaneck will help spread the tax burden,even if just 5$ for the average house. But the long term gains are simply outstanding, we need to encourage our leadership to locate decent land to place our Teaneck businesses while ensuring our open space requirements are enforced.
There is no silver bullet, but with a council armed like ours, im certain we will enjoy the math of -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5...