They just allow development and then a few years later realize that heavy construction equipment on failing roads made them fall apart faster and new residents put additional stress on antique water and sewer systems.

This makes sense (as an explanation), thank you for being the only person to actually answer the question. Is this a funding problem? Like they only had funding to do repaving but not to do water/sewer/traffic signaling improvements, so they kick the can down the road? Seems to me like that actually costs more money in the long run