Cities should prioritize ongoing sales tax revenue from commercial rooftops over one-time impact fees to fund schools and fire trucks. High-density development near downtown cores concentrates housing where infrastructure exists, preserving open land on the outskirts and solving housing shortages.
The whole goal, a lot of these cities is you need the rooftops to get the tax, like their big moneymaker is the taxes they collect from the sales from the businesses. So that should be the main focus. And that's what we're really trying to hit on when we're getting this stuff back. It's not necessarily like the impact fees and everything else, because if you want the school upgrades and the new fire truck and all that, like you need the forever revenue, not a one-time impact fee. That's just going to, you know, make the prices of the homes higher. So going on to like the solutions to things, because The reality is population's growing, right? People are going to need a place to live. Every, all the NIMBYs have the idea that, okay, I'm just going to slam the door shut as soon as I get in and no one else is allowed in. But like, you know, people are growing and people are very against these high-density neighborhoods. But the reality is you need the high density in order to solve the problem because usually around the downtown kind of core is where you should have a lot of these density projects. And that leaves the outskirts to be a little bit more rural. So if the city is passing these higher density developments that are closer to that core kind of area, you know, these 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 8,000 square foot lots, and they pass that, you are going to preserve more land on the outside.
