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What's the alternative that reaches eventual compliance everywhere on a shorter span than "wait for the grandfathered buildings to be bought and demolished" tho
by rtkwe 4y ago
What's the alternative that reaches eventual compliance everywhere on a shorter span than "wait for the grandfathered buildings to be bought and demolished" though?
- dragonwriter 4y agoImpose a supplemental property tax, increasing over time, on buildings out of compliance with current requirements, so that upgrade or replacement becomes comparatively more desirable vs. doing neither than it currently is. Or, just have a fixed window to achieve compliance or the building is condemned.
- briandear 4y agoCool. Let’s start with NYC subway stations. Public infrastructure should be ADA compliant yet NYC permitting will hammer a small business for a toilet two inches out of compliance when the city itself has massive issues that are ignored.
- londons_explore 4y agoA daily fine for everything noncompliant. Make the fine approximately proportional to the number of potential users impeded. Then a popular crosswalk gets upgraded before a rural crosswalk that nobody uses anyway. An easy upgrade is done before a hard upgrade. Sometimes even new stuff might be built non-compliant if, for example, there are other substantial benefits that outweigh the fine. Just burn the fine revenue. (Burning money is the inverse of printing money, helps reduce inflation, and means nobody has an incentive to maximize fines)
- lukas099 4y agoI have trouble imagining anyone convincing a city to 'burn revenue', even if it's a good idea in principle. Maybe the next best thing is applying it to a negative income tax so that it goes to the lowest-income residents.
- bombcar 4y agoIt's a reference to Modern Money Theory which states that a (federal) tax is disconnected from spending because the government prints money. But ADA stuff is almost always handled on a local, not even state, level.
- londons_explore 4y agoIt only makes sense for the federal government to mandate burning dollars. They're the ones who can print them anyway. The end result is they just print less each year.