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Roads, sidewalks & traffic - Financial Advice

show up at a relatively minor call? /  / Thanks.

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First, property taxes bear no relation to land value.  They should be based on metrics such as number of people in the household, square footage, etc.  Second, the City has to do a better job of its current spending.  Road work is a great example where lots of money is squandered cutting up roads and not repairing them properly.

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Increase property tax for higher income families. Freeze the tax on low income families. / Increase taxes on vehicles. / Increase parking fees in the City.

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I feel that the level of services has dropped in the City of Toronto over the past many years because there is reluctance to increase user fees and/or property taxes for political reasons. Although I don't want to fund misspending, I do want all

Torontonians to for excellent services. We talk about being a world class city but I drive my car over uneven roads and watch other unchecked motorists behave badly, I step over litter on sidewalks and in the subway and I watch drug deals happen in the streets of our neighbourhoods  where no police presence is found and I wonder what has happened to our great city.  If people are not willing to pay the price to live in Toronto then they should find a city with substandard services in which to live.

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The number of staff working in the collection booths at the city hall parking lot is ridiculous.  The city should automate its parking lots as most other private lots of done.  Automation would reduce costs and decrease lost revenue due to theft. 

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Look for other sources of revenue such as congestion taxes like in London England, car registration taxes and road tolls

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By increasing corporate taxes; by re-instating the vehicle registration tax; increase the cost of parking in the city; institute a vehicle congestion charge as they have done in the UK.

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road pricing (think of it as "user fees")

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So many people from outside of the city use our services. Especially people who commute from outside the city and significantly increase traffic flow. If they are not Toronto residents, they should pay a toll to help pay for maintaining our infrastructure. We could also have a price structure for services like the Ex where non-residents pay more user fees than residents but not so disparate as to lose too many users/revenue. /  / Also, why are the provincial/federal governments not mentioned? They have a responsibility to invest in the city. What about businesses and our growing class of the business elite? It is absurd to expect a shrinking middle class to fund the growing fiscal demands of Toronto. I find this questionnaire has been very leading because it has not mentioned taxes for business and government as sources of revenue.

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1.Strive to Reduce Non-Essential Services and cut fat / 2. Increase revenue streams

e.g. /     (a) Reduce # of councillors /     (b) Introduce/enforce bylaw for littering with fines high enough to significantly offset enforcement costs. /     (c) Toughen parking violation enforcement and increase fine amounts. /     (d) Aggressively collect unpaid fines. /     (e) Reduce and/or eliminate City support of "nice to have" arts and cultural services during current difficult financial times to    encourage supporters to