[sickoflibs]

RE :”how does that work ??? so long as mcmansions continue to sell and make money for the developers, and the resulting tax base, whose going to stop it ???”

Right , and the spending required to support those new developments is larger than those increases in tax base requiring even higher local taxes which the clueless sheep go along with, hostages of the resulting traffic jams and crowded schools that they seem to have no idea why things changed for the worst.

I used to propose passing a significant development tax on developers per acre that would be passed on to new houses price which would slow this process, instead of my taxes always going up. But they wont do it. Why?

1) Affordable house a priority goal of politicians even more than Green and current homeowners are clueless to how it hurts them.

2) Gives More representation in congress, even if they are illegals

3) NEW Voting base become MORE liberal and more accepting of taxes and spending.

To #3, when I moved here my county was solidly Republican, last year Dems in charge added ‘gender identity’ to the housing and employment discrimination laws. That will tell you what development did.

[muawiyah]

Developers, then homeowners, pay a significant development tax ~ it's presented mostly as "home price", where it's passed through to the buyers, and in hookup fees ~ sewer, water, electricity, phones, cable, etc. You name it they already tax it ~ this is not unploughed territory.

Here in Virginia we tap developers for the cost of roads ~ you, as a buyer, pay that.

We continue to suffer from years of neglect where local politicians imagined that if they didn't build roads that would stop development in its track.

BTW, that doesn't work at all. You end up with massive development and 2 lane pea gravel and tar roads.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Homebuilders create jobs and a tax base. Usually, they don’t build, if there are no buyers.