Five key findings from the Constitutional Court's Tafelberg judgment

Yeah, I think it should remain a school. The area is super high density and could do with extra schooling.
If the city wishes to keep it's crazy high rates and property taxes it needs to protect the values of the properties it so obviously relies on for that income.
Low income housing has a bad connotation. There is no utopia, different income classes live in different areas because thats how it works. Supply, affordability (or expense!) creates exclusivity, which drives higher prices and higher tax revenue etc.
COCT has a tough task on it's hands here. Provide cheaper (affordible ???) housing while not impacting surrounding property values and tax revenue.
 
justplain said:
Yeah, I think it should remain a school. The area is super high density and could do with extra schooling.
If the city wishes to keep it's crazy high rates and property taxes it needs to protect the values of the properties it so obviously relies on for that income.
Low income housing has a bad connotation. There is no utopia, different income classes live in different areas because thats how it works. Supply, affordability (or expense!) creates exclusivity, which drives higher prices and higher tax revenue etc.
COCT has a tough task on it's hands here. Provide cheaper (affordible ???) housing while not impacting surrounding property values and tax revenue.
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The DA doesn't care about educating the masses or doing common sense things.
 
Bliksis said:
I'm under the impression the COCT is trying to tax the middle and upper class and spending it on infrastructure and services for the poor.

As much as I loathe them, these journos are spinning stories like crazy.
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LOL, you think the DA cares about poor people?
 
justplain said:
Yeah, I think it should remain a school. The area is super high density and could do with extra schooling.
If the city wishes to keep it's crazy high rates and property taxes it needs to protect the values of the properties it so obviously relies on for that income.
Low income housing has a bad connotation. There is no utopia, different income classes live in different areas because thats how it works. Supply, affordability (or expense!) creates exclusivity, which drives higher prices and higher tax revenue etc.
COCT has a tough task on it's hands here. Provide cheaper (affordible ???) housing while not impacting surrounding property values and tax revenue.
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its an interesting conundrum.
there is not enough schooling facilities in the area.

add an extra 50 or so school kids to the area (schools are already full), those kids are in for long commutes to get to school and back.
so instead of adults working in the area having long commutes from home to work, and back home again - we will see school kids having to do the same commutes, but in reverse.

almost self defeating !
 
Grant said:
its an interesting conundrum.
there is not enough schooling facilities in the area.

add an extra 50 or so school kids to the area (schools are already full), those kids are in for long commutes to get to school and back.
so instead of adults working in the area having long commutes from home to work, and back home again - we will see school kids having to do the same commutes, but in reverse.

almost self defeating !
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You get what you vote for. I bet FF+ would have kept the land and opened the school.
 
Grant said:
good luck in finding a developer willing to plunge fortunes into "social housing" in an affluent area.
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That's the thing.

I agree with the sentiment of that they are trying to do here but this is the worst possible location.

Tafelberg school is a failed government school, why ? Because the people who would go to that school can't afford to live near the school. So you have a big empty property in an area where prices are sky high and is already over developed.

How will affordable housing work in an area like that ? Its totally doable but what's the plan to keep it affordable ?
When you build that housing, where will the kids go to school because now there is one less school.

The site was earmarked for a private school - which makes a lot more sense because there are a lot of people in the area and no schools. Keeping the site as a school makes a lot more sense as it wont increase the density and will meet a need.

The only reason they are making a noise is because it was going to be a Jewish owned school - and now thats a crime apparently.
TheChamp said:
They can't, they are disgusted and annoyed by the poor, they see them as refugees, they wished poor people would stay in their Bantustans where they belong.
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And yet they still have the highest quality of life here, the most concessions for the poor are here and most migration, even though its the furtherest from the source.

You will also notices the least amount of animosity towards migrants (of all kinds) here.

Hypocrisy is strong with you man. One moment you have no time for anyone coming from anywhere else... but the next you throw mud at the DA when they call migrants... migrants.
 
Nerfherder said:
That's the thing.

I agree with the sentiment of that they are trying to do here but this is the worst possible location.

Tafelberg school is a failed government school, why ? Because the people who would go to that school can't afford to live near the school. So you have a big empty property in an area where prices are sky high and is already over developed.

How will affordable housing work in an area like that ? Its totally doable but what's the plan to keep it affordable ?
When you build that housing, where will the kids go to school because now there is one less school.

The site was earmarked for a private school - which makes a lot more sense because there are a lot of people in the area and no schools. Keeping the site as a school makes a lot more sense as it wont increase the density and will meet a need.

The only reason they are making a noise is because it was going to be a Jewish owned school - and now thats a crime apparently.

And yet they still have the highest quality of life here, the most concessions for the poor are here and most migration, even though its the furtherest from the source.

You will also notices the least amount of animosity towards migrants (of all kinds) here.

Hypocrisy is strong with you man. One moment you have no time for anyone coming from anywhere else... but the next you throw mud at the DA when they call migrants... migrants.
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Why can't the people in that area send their kids to that public school? Isnt that how public schools work? Service the area around the school.
 
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