Can’t upvote you enough.
An empty commercial space is also not bringing in any sales tax. No employees implies no income tax. Etc.
An empty commercial space is also not bringing in any sales tax. No employees implies no income tax. Etc.
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 80s, I remember snaking across busy side streets and back-and-forth across the main street to walk along the well-occupied areas. Stumble into a dark corner or and you could get jumped.
Much of her writing is age-old and not directly relevant now, but the concepts life on. All these are well argued in Jane Jacobs' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
This sort of strategy is also followed at municipality levels such as the Netherlands' ABC location policy.
Because next it will be, "the wrong business is using the space" and not generating enough revenue. This is how we ended up with condemnations of private property. Someone decided that it could be put to better use, as in generate more taxes. Kelo vs New London ring any bells?
Simply put. Once a foot in the door of abusing the rights of private property owner's is there, there is no end in sight of justifications to come
"What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development."[0]
[0] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/bill-de-blasio-...