One solution would be to change a portion of our tax base to be based on lot size rather than value.
So say 50% of property tax would be on the current % of value and say 50% on % of lot size. So an older house on a 50 x 150 lot would pay 3 times as much as a lane home on a 25x100 lot and a person in a condo with 100 units in 100k sqft would pay 40% on the lane home.
Now you could tie this to the ongoing operational expenses due to sprawl rather than population to more fairly distribute the tax burdan.
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