Dear Editor,
Why don’t our property taxes go down each year?
Our developed land area isn’t getting bigger, we aren’t building new roads and infrastructure.
We require developers to pay for their utility connections and road improvements.
We charge development cost charges (DCCs) to developers.
So our costs of maintenance and administration shouldn’t be growing more than inflation, which is near zero.
Yet we are adding many new taxpayers each year, so that relatively fixed administration should be spread over more taxpayers, resulting in a declining tax bill for each of us?
Bob Garnett
Richmond
