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Define "improve". If I accumulate some land, its becoming a forest. For at least as long as my direct descendants live.

• adastra22 4y ago
  And if your land is in a highly desirable location and/or contains desirable resources, you end up paying ever increasing property tax to keep it that way.
  • nibbleshifter 4y ago
    Y'see, frankly, fuck that. You try do something good for the world (put a forest somewhere, do a bit of rewilding), then that area becomes desirable, then some LVT prick comes along and tries take what's yours so some property developer can flatten it to build magnolia shitboxes. Edit: the LVT people on here remind me of the arseholes who want to replace most of the good public parks in Berlin with housing, lol.
    • adastra22 4y ago
      LVT policies tend to end up with more dense urban areas and more wild landscapes, on the whole. It's the current landowner-favoring policies that have resulted in suburban sprawl and car-focused cities. National parks and land trusts are a good thing, but such exemptions ought to be publicly managed since there are societal costs involved.