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Yeah, Boulder considers it's green belt to be the fence of their little gated community. They're terrified of the idea of development around Boulder. The city
by monocasa 5y ago
Yeah, Boulder considers it's green belt to be the fence of their little gated community. They're terrified of the idea of development around Boulder. The city even owns a bunch of land in surrounding counties so the perpetually undeveloped land is some one else's tax burden.
- bpodgursky 5y agoI agree that NIMBYism is bad, but I don't see how undeveloped land incurs a tax burden.
- Scoundreller 5y agoThose neighbouring counties don't raise as much property taxes because there's nothing on the land. You could argue that the land doesn't cost those neighbouring counties anything, so it's a wash.
- josephcsible 5y agoThe city of Boulder needs to pay property taxes on that land to the other counties, and that money comes from the local taxes that Boulder residents have to pay.
- monocasa 5y agoIt's sort of backwards when you're talking about municipalities competing for property tax revenue. Boulder city wants property tax revenue, so they allow development in specific places where they reap that. Therefore the city owns land that isn't land within the city so they can maximize property tax revenue, but still have a undeveloped belt. The surrounding counties aren't a big fan of this relationship, but can't do much about it.
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- teakettle42 5y agoYou have a nice thing. You engage in conservation to preserve that nice thing. Someone else gets mad that they can't just pave over your nice thing. Help me understand how you're on the side of progressivism, here.
- asguy 5y agoYou make it sounds like they’re conserving their nice things, by not letting other people have them. Gate keeping progress. Help me understand how /you’re/ on the side of progressivism, here.
- teakettle42 5y agoYou cannot always have your cake and eat it too. If you pave over open spaces, you no longer have open spaces. Is paving over nature what you consider to be progress?
- monocasa 5y agoI don't really consider hay farms to be 'nature', any more than houseplants are.
- teakettle42 5y agoHay meadows aren't a more natural environment than paving them over, building a large high-density apartment block, and placing houseplants in those apartments? Do they not host more ecological diversity? Are they not more environmentally productive? Do hay farms introduce parking lots, traffic, roads, hundreds of housing units, and on average, ~1.5 cars for every unit?
- monocasa 5y agoIf Boulder actually cared about all of that, they'd allow density where the pavement already exists. This is all pearl clutching to keep out the poors with a fence that doesn't make you sad when you look at the fence.