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Well, this is exactly the opposite to an urban environment - this is urban sprawl.

Is it better to construct and maintain 75 miles of roads (and all the other infrastructure) for a couple of hundred folks?

I highly recommend this video on the finances around urban sprawl and their long term consequences:

https://youtu.be/XfQUOHlAocY

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Huh, so at 2:23 the speaker brings up Brainerd Minnesota. A town I am very familiar with, having visited family there many times growing up. Cute little town, big chunk of the economy is people coming up to go fishing.

He really cherry picked the least flattering angle on modern Front Street. Here's a better angle - https://goo.gl/maps/CBnqs6i9YLG1mSEG6

It's a very strange town to pick to make an argument about sprawl with - Brainard is a pretty densely packed small town as far as towns in Minnesota go.

I just see a huge parking lot. What do you see?

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