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In article <20000330191028.22798.00000087@nso-bd.aol.com>,
wbtobal@aol.comH8SPAM (Wm. Tobalske) wrote:
> In article <8b085772&38E3D306.D777F6E8@megsinet.net>,
> debkatz@megsinet.net writes:
>
> >Thurs, Apr. 13, 7 pm � A Smarter Property Tax For DC, with Deborah
> >Katz, Coordinator, Washington Regional Network for Livable
> >Communities.  Under split-rate taxation, used by a number of
> >communities around the country, housing is taxed at a lower rate
> >than land under the housing.
>
> ............and this is of particular significance to District of
> Columbia, and surrounding area cyclists, why??

Because bicycling and "livable communities" are symbiotic.  In this
particular case, it would be safer to bicycle in a rivitalized DC
than past blighted houses that become crack-houses.  And a safe,
revitalized DC can house more bicyclists who might prefer to avoid
suburbia and its car-dependence.  And more middle-class moving into
DC helps revitalize the city more, and make it more livable, etc.

Now, I don't happen to agree that a split tax would revitalize the
city.  It doesn't make sense to lower taxes on luxury townhouses
more than on run-down townhouses.

More to the point, this was posted here because my RFD to create
dc.urban-planning last year fizzled, so dc.biking is the closest
match.

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Michael Malak
malak@claygency.com



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