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Originally Posted by thoughtcriminal
true enough that the city can be creative with its taxing abilities, but there are limits to what it can legally do. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that you can't target one person or entity for a novel tax like what you're proposing. maybe I'm naive but it would seem pretty transparent that they would be trying to use this power as a pre-emptive and punitive social engineering weapon.
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What you're saying is true, but that is why the area I mentioned in my made up, dream on, 'law' was as large as it is. Spot zoning done through council passing a law is done this way quite often, I suppose for the reasons you mentioned. But, I don't claim to understand most of what comes out of council.
BTW, Harrisburg regularly passes laws and makes regulations that only apply to Class A cities. Philly is the only Class A city in the state. (I'm not such of the actual terms, but I've known two supervisors in different City departments who have told me the same thing, several years apart)