To <i>new</i> neighborhoods, you&#x27;re right.  To existing neighborhoods, you&#x27;re wrong: the infrastructure is already there.  There&#x27;s no reason to raise rates for people for something that&#x27;s already paid for.  That&#x27;s like adding a toll to a road that&#x27;s been there for 50 years; it&#x27;s just profiteering.<p>Maintenance is not going to be any higher for lower density; it&#x27;s not like you see electric utility workers in the suburbs constantly, repairing stuff.  And access is more difficult in higher-density housing too: in a suburb, you just drive the truck up to the transformer, but in a large building, it isn&#x27;t that easy.<p>As for rural areas, there&#x27;s a huge difference between urban and rural areas (where houses are miles apart), and urban and suburban areas (where houses are 20 feet apart).