Posted Mar 27, 2012, 7:31 PM
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Retrofit Urbanist
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by DizzyEdge
I figure that way communities won't feel as much like the city is forcing on them what their community will look like, they instead have some choice. Hell, even have an 'opt out' option in return for higher property taxes or something. In theory, it could be a density transfer: they can buy density in another community which they pay for with their taxes, whereas another community could increase density beyond what is asked, and sell that to a community which doesn't want to, with a decrease in the selling community's taxes.
Another option could be to set a standard of units per acre size of community (- parks, - institutional etc), and then this goes into some sort of overlay tax which can be in the positive if the community doesn't meet the goal, or in the negative if they surpass it, etc.
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Definitely creative ideas, but all but impossible given provincial legislation and other legal ramifications.
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