Posts Tagged ‘mixed-use’

Re: Koehler St. Development

I’ve had a number of people ask me to share this, and it’s beginning to circulate around the web, so I thought it would be best to put the original text of my letter to City Council here where I can keep an eye on it. Here is what I wrote to the City concerning [...]

Property Value Theory, Part 3: Places that Attract People

My Property Value Theory In urban settings the root value of all property is its attractiveness to human use, which I call “people-productivity“. This is different from resource-productivity, which is the basis for rural land values. There are two major things that attract people in a macro level: natural conditions (good weather, beautiful scenery, etc) [...]