Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task
by eppp on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:54AM
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An easement that forever stops me from planting a tree or building a building is not simple ROW. It is a takeover of my property.
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Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task
by ethbr0 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:22PM
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It's not exclusively your property, because it derives a large portion of its value from existing as part of a community.
A community that requires many shared goods: water, power, transit, sewage, waste disposal, etc.
Each of which require sacrifices to be made by all so that they can functionally exist.
Absolute ownership = no shared infrastructure can be constructed = everyone's land is worth less
Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task
by eppp on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:20PM
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They require sacrifices to be made by those who preserved land. I realize that we cannot have absolute ownership. What I see in practice is that farms and open spaces are run over roughshod. Road planners try to avoid tearing through businesses and neighborhoods while gleefully destroying a century old farm. It isnt a shared infrastructure or sacrifice and you know it.
Re:Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task
by ethbr0 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:30AM
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If you've got a bone to pick with planners, then you're drawing the wrong distinction.
They don't care about rural/farm vs urban/business.
They care about tax revenue and voters.
It's always going to be an uphill battle making the argument that $ tax revenue / acre farmland is more important than $$$ tax revenue / acre sub/urban use. And due to density that farmland represents one family of voters vs the >1 an equivalent urban footprint would impact.