Recommendation made by the Land Use Commission (LUC) to the Chancellor regarding covering tier costs for Friedsee

[Delia Lake]

Recommendation: raise the per prim cost for private plots to $0.0395 US, up from $0.0277 US

Here’s background

When the RA instructed the Estate Owner to request that LL downgrade Friedsee from a full region to a homestead the region, changes occurred immediately. As a full region, Friedsee was allotted 15000 prims by LL; as a homestead, the total prim allotment became 3750, only ¼ of what the region previously had. In addition to providing fewer prims for homesteads, LL also charges the region owner a higher rate per prim than they charge owners of full regions. So the net is we have fewer prims available on Friedsee now and although the total cost we pay LL is now $95 per month, down from $295 per month, as these numbers show, we pay LL more per prim.

Why request an increase to $0.0395?

The redesign of Friedsee has 3114 prims out of the 3750 designated for private plots, leaving only 636 for public lands, fewer public prims than on any other CDS region. If we were to sell all 3114 private prims at 0.0277, it would bring in only $89 US, $6 short of the amount due each month to LL for Friedsee. At this charge per prim it is impossible for Friedsee to carry itself even if it were always at full occupancy.

$0.0395 US represents an amount per prim that enables Friedsee to pay for itself at an occupancy rate of 77%, in keeping with occupancy decisions that have been made in the past regarding other CDS regions.

Further discussion regarding this recommendation is in the LUC transcript of 17 July 2016 meeting.
http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=7655

[Leslie Allandale]

Even though, in a perfect democracy, everyone would pay the same for a prim, that never happens. In this case, to follow both convention and existing law, there is no other course. In fact, Friedsee is the only true rustic area in CDS, and will attract those hardier avatars, despite a slight increase. In fact, the rate is still equivalent to the cost per prim in other estates and on the mainland.
I commend, then, the hard work of my luc fellows, and look forward to moving on to other, perhaps more vividly colored, pastures.