> They've done that here, made the property taxes higher for the new
> wealthy people coming into the area without greatly increasing
> taxes for those who have been here for many years.
> But to be fair, those who have been here for years usually paid
> less than $75,000 for a property where new buyers building on a
> new lot are often into $3 or $4 million, so they can probably
> afford the higher taxes more easily than some retired owner..

If you want to keep an area from becoming overdeveloped, that is probably a
good way to do it.

There has been a lot of concern here in the states about how many small to
mid-sized "non-company" farms are being bought up for development.  The
number that are sold to non-farm interests is pretty staggering.

Mike


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