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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
Sure they are! Since the Timber Island owners are not paying their fair share, the tax rate goes up and everyone pays for it!
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You own an improved parcel of land with a somewhat rundown structure on it. You demolish the house and plant a garden on it - or maybe just let it return to its native state. The town reassesses and you are billed for the value of the land only (the value of the house is deleted).
Would you conclude, then, that you aren't paying your fair share? Would you feel that everyone else in town pays for what you have decided to do with
your land?
That does not follow in this case, and the same logic can be used when looking at the decision to convert some of Timber Is to conservation land.