Gentrification: What is it, what isn't it, what should be done about it?

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Zachack: Jun 1, 2000

Infinite Karma posted:

There are plenty of permits and inspections and licenses and fees that are usually nominal, but can be set punitively.

I've seen this used but I've honestly never seen it used well without creating blight. The clock can't stop ticking and at some point a business or whatever is simply going to stop existing (for any number of reasons), and that now-vacant property will just sit empty for far longer than it should.

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I know of some desert areas in California that have huge "impact" fees for installing a new water meter, for instance. On a mall-sized or school-sized development, a single meter might have a $150,000 fee, and 5-10 meters might be necessary for the water volume they're talking about.

High water connection fees are typically less a directed control against growth and more of a way of allowing growth because the city or whatever really needs that cash infusion to "build" more water unless they want to enter the exciting world of a connection moratorium placed upon them from higher entities. Cities may not particularly want growth but they absolutely don't want to be told that they can't grow.

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