Building and maintaining car infrastructure is extremely expensive.
But Canada doesn’t want to tax car owners. Instead, most Canadian cities tax housing.
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And that’s on top of $48,000-$160,000 each to build the parking spaces themselves.
Not an accurate assessment. When you plop a building down somewhere you now have say 1000 more people in that area who all like to urinate, defecate, drink clean water and shower on occasion. They make garbage that needs to be picked up, have kids that need to go to school, fire and police services and all the other infra people need for modern living. Yes roads are part of that, so is transit that runs on those roads.
From the City of Toronto website
Development charges are fees collected from developers at the time a building permit is issued to help pay for the cost of infrastructure required to provide municipal services to new development, such as roads, transit, water and sewer infrastructure, community centres and fire and police facilities.
Yeah, the chart and claim seem a little disingenuous. Reading the bottom of the graphic shows that a builder group was one of the groups behind it, as well as a group that provides management software and servicrs to property mgmt groups. So they have a vested interest that could prompt them to mislead people on the subject.
When you plop a building down somewhere you now have say 1000 more people in that area
I thought residential buildings weren’t ploppable in the base game
That explanation doesn’t explain why these fees differ so much from place, considering the fee is per housing unit. Higher density can mean building and maintaining infrastructure is more expensive but not by factor 10 or 20. Also these costs rise rather equally across the country, while this graph clearly shows a huge difference between cities there as well.
That explanation doesn’t explain why these fees differ so much from place, considering the fee is per housing unit. Higher density can mean building and maintaining infrastructure is more expensive but not by factor 10 or 20.
Sure it does. When you build a block of townhomes in Sudbury, you also need to fund a bit more of everything and the equivalent of a few bus runs a day.
When you build high density in Toronto, you need subways. Build me a subway then come back to me and say this.
But then the fee would rise equally in big cities as it would in small towns, but they’re all over the place. One increases where the other decreases etc.
You have some curious ideas about how the world should be. Each city sets its development charges based on its growth plan and needs. Not all cities have the same demand or needs.
You are the one who said “Instead, most Canadian cities tax housing.” is an inaccurate assumption while everything you say agrees with this lol.
Are…are you a hallucinating bot?
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