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1/ Let's Talk about Sobi (Bike Share) in Hamilton
Assessment growth in parts of the lower city is directly benefitting residents throughout all of Hamilton, including Binbrook, Waterdown, Upper Stoney Creek. The city's 2020 capital & operating budgets illustrate this tax shift;
Assessment growth in parts of the lower city is directly benefitting residents throughout all of Hamilton, including Binbrook, Waterdown, Upper Stoney Creek. The city's 2020 capital & operating budgets illustrate this tax shift;
2/ Let's Talk about Sobi
Our city of Hamilton planning policies mandate higher densities and less parking (see Downtown Secondary Plan) in parts of the lower city, that are overwhelmingly more tax productive on a per hectare basis
Our city of Hamilton planning policies mandate higher densities and less parking (see Downtown Secondary Plan) in parts of the lower city, that are overwhelmingly more tax productive on a per hectare basis
3/ Let's Talk about Sobi
These Council approved planning policies are explicit in stating that if the lower city is going to carry this density with less parking requirements, then these neighbourhoods need equivalent public investments in their physical & social infrastructure;
These Council approved planning policies are explicit in stating that if the lower city is going to carry this density with less parking requirements, then these neighbourhoods need equivalent public investments in their physical & social infrastructure;
4/ Let's Talk about Sobi
Higher levels of service for public transit, protected, connected bike infrastructure and Sobi bikes are exactly the kinds of infrastructure investment necessary in a city that officially enables higher density & less parking;
Higher levels of service for public transit, protected, connected bike infrastructure and Sobi bikes are exactly the kinds of infrastructure investment necessary in a city that officially enables higher density & less parking;
5/ Let's Talk about Sobi
These city of Hamilton downtown planning policies, which can include the transit oriented corridor, grants permissions for higher density & less parking. These are very different from the land use planning governing all other parts of the City;
These city of Hamilton downtown planning policies, which can include the transit oriented corridor, grants permissions for higher density & less parking. These are very different from the land use planning governing all other parts of the City;
5/ Let's Talk about Sobi
To suggest that we shouldn't public invest in Sobi because it is not available across the entire city is to suggest that the entire city is willing to champion the density & fewer parking requirements necessary in their Wards to support Sobi
To suggest that we shouldn't public invest in Sobi because it is not available across the entire city is to suggest that the entire city is willing to champion the density & fewer parking requirements necessary in their Wards to support Sobi
6/ Let's Talk about Sobi
Also, to suggest that Sobi shouldn't be "subsidized" is to misunderstand land economics. Greenfield residential development has created the "illusion of wealth". A short term jolt in assessment growth in exchange for decades & decades of debt;
Also, to suggest that Sobi shouldn't be "subsidized" is to misunderstand land economics. Greenfield residential development has created the "illusion of wealth". A short term jolt in assessment growth in exchange for decades & decades of debt;
7/ Let's Talk about Sobi
This sprawl and outward development is subsidized by existing residents and future generations, including Sobi riders who will never commute on those roads, but have to pay for them.
This sprawl and outward development is subsidized by existing residents and future generations, including Sobi riders who will never commute on those roads, but have to pay for them.
