• @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Cities don’t tax only based on the potential for what land could be doing, but instead include taxes on improvements to the land as well. As a result, there’s incentive to sprawl rather than pressure to densify.

    • @mvirts
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      51 year ago

      Hmmm so you’re saying we need height and depth tax incentives?

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Yes that’s part of it. Another part is encouraging more permissive, inclusive, mixed use zoning to better reflect the potential optimal use of the land, and switching from property taxes to land value taxes to apply pressure to reach that ideal.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        The way to achieve this is with a land value tax. Undeveloped land and developed land are taxed the same, so the owner is incentivised to maximize the development to make as much money as possible to offset the LVT.