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>From: Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: More land vs. more stories
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:48:19 -0400
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>... Is there a possibility that installing additional floors --
>perhaps along with additional support if necessary -- would be a
>reasonably economic alternative to buying more land and tearing down >more
>houses?
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key words here being "reasonably economic alternative" ;)
and who gets to define them....
who will decide how much it costs to buy the neighborhood,
the residents....
or someone exercising eminent domain?
the residents will almost always factor intangibles into their
asking price (like, my grandma was born in this house and used to
tell me about when she was little...)
which of course, may drive the prices up past what the university
purchasers consider "reasonable" ;)
(note that the residents are not always the actual owners of the
historic properties either, and so may not be valuing the properties
in a strictly economic, what-the-market-will-bear manner...
even though the end result of that process is to drive up the asking
price of the landlords who are theoretically only interested
in the bottom line)
when I was in school we studied alternative methods of
assigning and rating/ranking "value"....
(in other words, systems that were not based on money alone)
so that options could be weighed while comparing apples and oranges
such as "scenic vista" with "board feet of lumber" ;)
maybe that's what's needed here, a little "values check"
I've been out of school for a while, and those methods were developed
for planners for use in the EIS process, which may not be required
in this situation....
but seem to me to be a way of introducing information or perspectives into a
discussion among individuals who may not have
fully considered all the options or viewpoints available
deb
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