wormwood
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Offworld
Active Member
Surpassed by Winnipeg and Regina nipping at your heels?
Gronk!
Senior Member
Not sure where else to post this
City of Edmonton looking to crack down on derelict commercial properties
Concern raised after Alberta Avenue fire damaged vacant property near music venue
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Anyone else get their residential tax assessments yet? I'm staring down a 30% YoY increase. Brutal.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Not sure why they flag the Problem Properties Initiative here, it's much more appropriate to call on the City to expedite the expansion of the derelict property tax subclass to non-residential properties. It's already coming one way or another, but the sooner it's in place, the sooner we will see Chinatown get a second wind.
TAS
Senior Member
There was a large provincial increase in education taxes this year, too, which will reflect about 25% of your final municipal tax bill.
Yeggy
Active Member
Are you talking about your homes assessed value, or are you talking about the mid year adjustment to your monthly payments?
If you are talking about the mid year adjustment, they initially assessed high, so I have seen a near 10% decrease.
Yeggy
Active Member
NM just got mine, you are talking about the market value your home is assessed at. So your home value increased 30%. If you think this is incorrect there are ways to have the city adjust this. Make sure your home details are correct with the city. IE when we bought they assessed out basement as fully finished, it was only 40% finished. Make sure you have comparables as proof. again as I am a duplex I could point to my neighbour (duplex) and say well they have a double garage, fully finished basement with a slightly bigger lot and they are being assessed x which is equal to or more than y(me) There is an issue here. They greatly adjusted my property value. The city was very fair in their ultimate reassessment.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
I mean I certainly could try to fight LPRT on it, but the market value reflects a comparable change. It's not that they're incorrect, it's just that the level of assessment volatility is a bummer.
Tropical
Active Member
I'm going through this as well. I have a 30% increase in assessed value after a 10% decline last year. The volatility is major.
Jesus Is King
New Member
Exact same as me....Yet my services in my neighborhood seem to be worse ....Mmmmmm.
Avenuer
Senior Member
Yup, mine actually decreased 2% after jumping 31% last year, after we bought the place.
Benefits of living in a 'shady' neighbourhood I guess (it's not actually shady, just the perception that keeps values lower, to the benefit of residents that are not looking to sell in the near future).
wormwood
Active Member
Looked this up on copilot, no wonder our taxes are nuts.
≈ 0.00613 km of roadway per person
(= 6.13 metres per person)
≈ 0.000839 km of roadway per person
(= 0.839 metres per person)
The mature neighbourhoods are paying for these new fire stations and rec centres, infrastructure in these soulless sprawling developments.
Roadway per Person (km/person)
Edmonton
Using 10,000 lane‑km ÷ 1,631,614 people:≈ 0.00613 km of roadway per person
(= 6.13 metres per person)
Toronto
Using 5,397 km ÷ 6,431,000 people:≈ 0.000839 km of roadway per person
(= 0.839 metres per person)
The mature neighbourhoods are paying for these new fire stations and rec centres, infrastructure in these soulless sprawling developments.
thommyjo
Senior Member
A few notes:
It’s more like 12,000, and then it’s also more like 1.2mil residents. St. Albert pays for their own roads, etc.
Toronto population should also be the city, 6mil includes huge suburbs like Durham I believe.
But yes, we often have 3-5x the amount of road, pipeline, sqkm of land of other big cities. Part of that is a lack of geographic constraints forcing in building, a lack of traffic forcing TOD, and just development history. It’s why our infill target being 50% of new units is so key though.
It’s also why substantial completion is needed, and nothing south of 41ave for years still.
bodsbods9090
Senior Member
Prepare yourself because that land south of 41 Ave is for sale. They're starting to sell off pieces of it.
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