A tax category I'd like to see
I was walking by three different vacant lots on my way to work. One is used as a parking lot occasionally, but for most days of the month lies vacant. The other lots are fenced in, and there are a few other lots I know of along alternative routes to the metro, also fenced in.Anyway, I was thinking, it would be great if these lots were community gardens. About half of part of the lots get full sun. Even better a couple have southern exposure. A way to encourage this could be a reduced property tax rate for owners who lease green space to gardeners. In the city center, where there are more apartments, condos and townhomes with non-existent yards there is a demand for greenspace. If there was an environment that encouraged this sort of land use, it would be great.
posted by Mari @ 15.4.09
6 Comments:
Would be nice, however I'm sure that once dcra gets ahold of it, the licensing, permitting, etc would quickly. Maybe just a different class of managed, unimproved land. imho, well kept land w/o a building should not be considered vacant as it is today. The downside, it would probably encourage people to raze a lot of old buildings.
-Mike
Your 1st sentence appears incomplete. I take it that you might mean DCRA will screw it up with restrictions?
There is a documentary movie coming soon at the E Street Cinemas about radical Los Angeles urban gardeners who uncover a local government ring of corruption. It's called 'The Garden'. We should go see it and learn how to be rebel gardeners:
http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/
I plan on planting my castor bean plans to be an agro-ter'rist.
guerrillagardening.org
there's already enough creativity in the real property tax area. Too much Alice in Wonderland at OTR
rr446
It's a good idea buuuutttttttt,
heck DCRA can't even figure out that a once classified vacant property is occupied, despite being informed with documents. I'm told that only one guy works on it.
esse
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