Cathy and I moved to our leasehold on Harvey Road back in 2016 because we were interested in finding a holistic community as opposed to simply a “place to live”. We’ve since learned much about our community’s unique philosophy and look to become active participants in it. I embrace the Georgist economic principles upon which our village is based, and yet, am struck by how the assessment process seems to be an annual wrangle. If we are truly a “single-tax” community, with leaseholders paying a land rent that is based upon the land’s intrinsic value and not upon “fruits of labor” improvements, then a leasehold’s “percentage” of Arden’s total assessment ought not to change from year to year, and yet, it does. I believe that a given leasehold’s percentage of Arden’s overall assessment should be immutable. I further believe that certain so-called “privileges,” specifically as applied to ADU’s, are antithetical to the tenents under which this community was founded, and, has created an unfair distinction without a difference given NCC’s regulations regarding owner-occupied attached separate residences. The solution to this budding inequity is the assignment of a value factor to each leasehold. Once fairly assigned, the annual assessment process becomes a simple math problem and stops becoming an annual reinvention of the wheel. 10/19/20