real estate economics and sprawl
anonymous
December 14 2008, 05:05:14 UTC
1) high property taxes around cities although it actually costs more per capita to maintain a remote suburb
2) decentralized nature of canadian government where municipal issues are not scene as macro problems (i.e. each municipalities set their own property taxes regardless of whether or not it makes sense as a country)
i wonder if you got further on the scarf? Good luck studying! I hope you hop online sometime tomorrow to discuss Monday. I'll be at work though, until 8pm, and then dinner, so I might not be at the computer until much later in the evening...I think I have your number in case I don't see you online, but I'd like it confirmed hehe. If you see this why don't you email me your number so I can call you tomorrow night in case you're studying and off msn??
wow, I suck at that geology stuff. I can only mention things I studied before...did you talk about Oak Ridges Morraine? It's north of Richmond Hill area, and it WAS all about environment and stuff; they were holding off expanding it and trying to keep the enviornment there good and stuff but...maybe a balance of resources used between maintaining environment vs. development, how you have to get zoning rights and all of that anyway to begin with before development, etc?? ack, okay I'd rather not screw you up. heh. good luck!!
I got to about 31". It's really annoying using two different needles. I can't wait to switch to my metal needles (my friend said they're in her room, but I'm still missing the one plastic needle I think I dropped). I thought you have my cell phone number? But I'll email you anyway. = )
Lol, well I can fill in some of the gaps re: geology, but this question is kind of more about environmental impact I think, cuz that's what we talked about in the later half of the course. I don't know much about Oak Ridges Morraine, just that it's there and there are or will be lots of conflict about that land. But no details at all. My Rotman friend (re: comment above) talked a little about zoning and taxes too. I just don't know what to say about municipal govts.
*huggles* I hope you have a good day at work!!! It's 11:21!!!
also endangered life forms. like how you always see signs about protecting japanese beetles on the highway. and zebra mussels. although that has less to do with sprawl.
Lol. I think ecological diversity was not the point of the question. In one of the past exams, it mentioned that it was not looking for the loss of diversity as a point, but other stuff we actually talked about in course. But the Oak Ridges Moraine apparently really is full of lots of diversity. Nothing on jungles and rainforests, but up there, esp. for Canada, lol.
We had to grind up zebra and quagga mussels for a lab...
Sprawl is definitely a lose for almost everyone. Short term planning = lose.
I wanted to touch on groundwater and of course transporation is another huge obvious one. Ecology is another obvious one, but let's face it, not enough of a deterrent to have enough real power. Toronto's not really at much risk for disasters so like 60-70% of what the course covered isn't even relevant to this question. I have a vague idea re: Green-Belt, which is provincial, but almost nothing else about the govt. Oh well.
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2) decentralized nature of canadian government where municipal issues are not scene as macro problems (i.e. each municipalities set their own property taxes regardless of whether or not it makes sense as a country)
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wow, I suck at that geology stuff. I can only mention things I studied before...did you talk about Oak Ridges Morraine? It's north of Richmond Hill area, and it WAS all about environment and stuff; they were holding off expanding it and trying to keep the enviornment there good and stuff but...maybe a balance of resources used between maintaining environment vs. development, how you have to get zoning rights and all of that anyway to begin with before development, etc?? ack, okay I'd rather not screw you up. heh. good luck!!
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Lol, well I can fill in some of the gaps re: geology, but this question is kind of more about environmental impact I think, cuz that's what we talked about in the later half of the course. I don't know much about Oak Ridges Morraine, just that it's there and there are or will be lots of conflict about that land. But no details at all. My Rotman friend (re: comment above) talked a little about zoning and taxes too. I just don't know what to say about municipal govts.
*huggles* I hope you have a good day at work!!! It's 11:21!!!
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SPRAWWWWWWL.
also endangered life forms. like how you always see signs about protecting japanese beetles on the highway. and zebra mussels. although that has less to do with sprawl.
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We had to grind up zebra and quagga mussels for a lab...
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he can't remember where he saw the pattern but it's somewhere on the internets.
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I wanted to touch on groundwater and of course transporation is another huge obvious one. Ecology is another obvious one, but let's face it, not enough of a deterrent to have enough real power. Toronto's not really at much risk for disasters so like 60-70% of what the course covered isn't even relevant to this question. I have a vague idea re: Green-Belt, which is provincial, but almost nothing else about the govt. Oh well.
Thanks Paul = )
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