City Planning: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, on the Subject of City Planning.June 1, 1909 |
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... expense secure the parking . In that way you have the street at small expense and avoid the large initial expense which would fall so heavily on the class of people who would live in these small houses . Another suggestion is that the ...
... expense secure the parking . In that way you have the street at small expense and avoid the large initial expense which would fall so heavily on the class of people who would live in these small houses . Another suggestion is that the ...
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... expenses of the city government . But I would sug- gest a system of progressive taxation upon increases in land values or land assessments , since the land assessment is supposed to conform to the actual land value where the law ...
... expenses of the city government . But I would sug- gest a system of progressive taxation upon increases in land values or land assessments , since the land assessment is supposed to conform to the actual land value where the law ...
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... expenses of living , than the New York rate of wage , which is $ 2 a day . Then there is the other alternative . You have a house famine here . Out of some 2,600 brick houses erected from 1903 to 1907 , there were , according to some ...
... expenses of living , than the New York rate of wage , which is $ 2 a day . Then there is the other alternative . You have a house famine here . Out of some 2,600 brick houses erected from 1903 to 1907 , there were , according to some ...
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... expense of the taxpayer , simply because the value of adjoining land jumps , making it so much harder for the renter of the land , and , of course , so much better for the owner of the land . And personally I do not see how we are going ...
... expense of the taxpayer , simply because the value of adjoining land jumps , making it so much harder for the renter of the land , and , of course , so much better for the owner of the land . And personally I do not see how we are going ...
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... expense to him of $ 500 per lot . The same principle obtains there of assessing the benefit upon the property benefited . This advocate of this assess- ment of the cost of betterment upon the property improved said that within two or ...
... expense to him of $ 500 per lot . The same principle obtains there of assessing the benefit upon the property benefited . This advocate of this assess- ment of the cost of betterment upon the property improved said that within two or ...
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