Local governments are entrusting private developers with supplying their communities' roads and water, sewer, and drainage systems. In this study, the author examines a 30-year public-private partnership in infrastructure that failed its community. The analysis reflects the vulner-ability of local public authority and citizen participation in the public-private partnership. The case highlights the broader issue of governance in land use as county and state intervention in the partnership contributed to the infrastructure crisis. Overlapping local land-use controls with growth management mandates offered no panacea for governing a private producer of public services.
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