• HubertManne@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This seems great actually as I would think it would incetive high density construction. The less land to building ratio the less tax.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Exactly, and it also discourages speculative landholding, rather encouraging people to actually use their land appropriately. Detroit especially has so much vacant land – much of it owned by the Illitch family – that you can clearly see it from google earth:

      As well as a crapload of downtown parking lots:

      Everybody works but the vacant lot.