Building and maintaining car infrastructure is extremely expensive.
But Canada doesn’t want to tax car owners. Instead, most Canadian cities tax housing.
Building and maintaining car infrastructure is extremely expensive.
But Canada doesn’t want to tax car owners. Instead, most Canadian cities tax housing.
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.
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?