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Originally Posted by peter12
Curious why you think that? It is certainly not the largest - that belongs to discretionary zoning.
Hell yes, of course. It's a resource like anything else, why shouldn't it be taxed? As Roughneck said though, I'm more concerned with the low tax bill before a house is actually built on a parcel of land, thus contributing more to the wastage of single-family homes. Why not encourage the best and most efficient use for a piece of land and encourage more types of development options?
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When you look at residential neighbourhoods built in Calgary today vs ones built in the 60s to 80s, we’re already seeing that. New houses are built much closer together and with much smaller yards. Personally I could never live in a newer neighbourhood - I need my privacy and trees. But developers are already densifying, because buyers of new homes today are willing to sacrifice yard size for house square footage.
As for moving away from single-family dwellings more dramatically, the oversupply of condos in Canadian cities show that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.