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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Why wouldn't [toll roads] happen [?] Tonnes of cities around the world have tolls, and frankly, it would probably pass a vote at city because parasites wouldn't have a say.
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I believe it's not likely to happen because the roads that bring the leeches into the city aren't under the city's jurisdiction.
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Originally Posted by Rathji
So the people who get the benefit of not needing to drive for an hour to get to work, need to pay less tax? How do these 'normal' places all over the world figure this out? By the length of road that you need to drive on to get to the core of a city?
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You start of by figuring out the cost of servicing new (and existing) communities (and developments). The city can do this, because they pay for it. They know what it costs. You include downstream effects (i.e. if a new community or group of new communities adds enough traffic to an existing road that that road needs to be expanded, that community or group of communities is allocated the cost of that expansion). Once again, you can do this. There are statistics; there are correlations.
Then, you can do a few different things. You can make the developers pay those costs up front (acreage fees). You can use the cost allocations to create a factor (preferably 1:1 proportional) that your property value gets multiplied by to figure out your tax payments.
Yes, the cost allocations won't be perfect, so the system will still be somewhat arbitrary, but it would be much more fair than what's currently in place, and better for the city as a whole because it would make the city fiscally sustainable.