Here to stay

At least some times, the democratic process still works. When proposing to change the rating system from land value to capital value, the city council experienced a massive opposition. Why? Due to shifting the weight from businesses onto residential properties, most people would have paid a significant amount more in rates. We would have faced an increase in rates of 37% over the next five years. And that did’t even include the yearly increases to fix the budget – we just had an 8% increase this year and with more to come. First time, that I made a submission myself, one of 2,763!