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San Jose doesn't want more housing. Prop 13 is strangling services so now they want commercial.
by wbl 8y ago
San Jose doesn't want more housing. Prop 13 is strangling services so now they want commercial.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoSo many problems get solved if we repeal prop 13.
- wahern 8y agoThat wouldn't change with a repeal of Prop 13. Prop 13 also applies to commercial property. Prop 13 has nothing to do with the dynamic of wanting more tax revenue without having to pay for the social services--police, schooling, etc. Whether residential or commercial, density is far more efficient--more revenue per acre, fewer expenditures per capita. Not choosing higher density is budgetary non-sense. Cities reject higher density because of NIMBYism, and because the costs of sprawl are hidden and delayed, whereas the costs of density are immediate and obvious. If the costs of sprawl were as transparent as the costs of density, development would be much more dense.
- wbl 8y agoProp 13 means commercial activity which pays sales or income taxes is more lucrative. I agree density is cheaper.
- Apocryphon 8y agoThere's currently a movement to repeal Prop 13 specifically for commercial purposes https://www.evolve-ca.org https://www.evolve-ca.org