If you drive: a charge of $1,350 per month for 20 years on every new single-family home.

Would be so delicious if Hilton won the governor slot.

Vote Democrat, get Democrats.

I cannot tell you how many new developments are going up around Fresno. They’re everywhere.

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I cannot tell you how many new developments are going up around Fresno. They’re everywhere.

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All Hispanic

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How often is an estimate on a tax too low?

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I don't know. What percent of tax estimates are too low?

They have to pay for their failed policies somehow.

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Would be so delicious if Hilton won the governor slot.

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In-person only voting + legit proof of citizenship, and he would win.

Digging into it a little deeper the process is much more complex than presented.


First, you have the The California Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Housing Program which is is funded by the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund. This fund derives its revenue currently from bond initiatives. The TOD gives low-interest loans to affordable housing that is built close to transit terminals. It also gives grants for infrastructure improvements in those areas. The plan is to set up VMT (vehicle miles travelled) banks that let developers of any housing (not just single-family detached) buy credits (reminiscent of a land bank in LA for wetland mitigation) if their project significantly impacts traffic congestion. They do that in lieu of directly paying for a portion of the improvements.

To put it in BR terms if you owned a parcel on Highland off the west side of I-10 and wanted to develop a neighborhood or build apartments/condos your traffic impact would be considered. Given the bad congestion, lack of walkability, and not being close to any public transportation, you would be accessed an amount to help mitigate. You could buy credits in the VMT bank that would then be used as part of the funding for housing that actively reduces VMT. This is something paid by the developer not individuals but it would clearly be included in the cost of purchase or rent.

While the implementation might well go wonky, the idea of incentivising housing that lowers congestion and disincentivising housing that increases congestion makes a lot of sense in places like LA. If you've ever spent time on the 405 it seems like a really good idea.

Tax policies so complicated and esoteric are probably as much of a problem with legislation like this as anything. Seems like any hard number anyone might want to propose as the actual impact for an individual taxpayer would have to be “pulled from one’s arse.”

But, of course, that’s not a bug to people enacting such legislation. That’s really the driving feature, isn’t it?