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Urban3 study: older, denser neighborhoods produce more tax value per acre; city pitches zoning reforms
Summary
Planning staff presented an Urban3 land-value-per-acre study showing downtown and pre-1951 parcels generate far greater tax value per acre than more recent annexations. Staff recommended zoning simplification and 'Zoning Unlocked' reforms; a Feb. 19 full-council work session was scheduled to present phase two.
Eric Leshinski, the city’s chief of comprehensive planning, presented results from a land-value-per-acre analysis by Urban3 that maps how different development patterns produce tax value in Annapolis.
Leshinski said parcels developed before the 1951 annexation — compact, mixed-use, and denser neighborhoods — tend to generate higher tax value per acre than sprawling, lower-density areas annexed after 1951. Using…
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