This is a topic that has come up recently amongst us estate managers and some of us feel might be holding us back.
There is a limit to the number of parcels that any one person may own -both per region and for the estate over-all.
As it stands now, a person may not own more than 8192 m2 in the CDS. The intent of this is to prevent any individual from becoming invaluable to the running of the estate because their departure would place our finances in jeopardy.
That's sound enough reasoning, but there's obvious problems with it -particularly when you look at the map and see all of the yellow areas that we have.
I feel that we need to change the policy in the following way;
1)To prioritise new citizens
2)To encourage land purchase
3)To be dynamic enough to allow purchases when we have a surplus of open parcels, but to reserve parcels for new citizens when we have a shortage.
I'm not sure if this should be a law or simply a policy (there's a difference?).
I'm not sure how this would work exactly (hence -this thread), but I'd suggest something like the following;
The CDS encourages its' citizens to hold as much land as they both feel they can afford, and that they will be able to use. However, to safeguard the economic stability of the CDS as a whole we place limits on how much land any citizen may hold. The limits for ownership are as follows;
No more than 8192 m2 per region
No more than 4096 * [The number of regions] in the entire estate. (As of July 2017 we have six regions, so that would be 4096*6 total, with no more than 8192 in any one region). Exceptions may be granted for the sake of projects deemed to be a part of the CDS as a whole, such as Monastery. These projects must be approved by the RA, and Monastery itself shall be grandfathered in -considered preapproved.
If the CDS is low on parcels, as detirmined by (how WOULD we detirmine that?) priority shall go to newer property holders and citizens for any availalbe plots, and the parcel limits shall revert back to the original limit of 8192 m2 for the entire estate. This does not mean that anyone who owns property will be required to give it up, but they will be informally encouraged to divest of any unused land and formally limited from purchasing any further properties while the shortage lasts.
There are obvious flaws in that (eg what criteria would we use?) but hopefully that at the least gets the ball rolling in the right direction.