Exactly, and it also discourages speculative landholding, rather encouraging people to actually use their land appropriately. Detroit especially has so much vacant land – much of it owned by the Illitch family – that you can clearly see it from google earth:
Exactly, and it also discourages speculative landholding, rather encouraging people to actually use their land appropriately. Detroit especially has so much vacant land – much of it owned by the Illitch family – that you can clearly see it from google earth:
As well as a crapload of downtown parking lots:
Everybody works but the vacant lot.
I could see some sort of land discount if its either forested or well maintained and open to the public.