Bills 4-13 and 4-14: Setting up for micro-landowning

Bill 4-13: City Prim Farm

Text:

The lot currently designated as p280 will be placed under a new covenant. p280 will be subdivided as necessary and made available only to those citizens who already own a plot inside the city walls, for the purpose of allowing a larger prim-allowance. The actual territory of p280 itself may have no building done on it other than trees and other natural objects, to preserve an "undeveloped park" look.


Rationale:

This is to make de jure what is already de facto and formally establish the "prim farm" covenant. Also, it sets up 4-14.

Bill 4-14: Microplots

Text:

At least one unsold plot shall be divided into 16m^2 portions, priced accordingly. These "microplots" will be reserved for avatars who wish to join the City without purchasing a conventional plot. It is prohibited for any citizen to own both a microplot and a normal plot, although a microplot may be assigned to a group of the owner's choice that already owns land in the City for prim-allowance purposes. These microplots are subject to the "prim farm" covenant, as established in 4-13.

Rationale: This allows a couple (or more, we aren't choosy) to co-habit a plot and both be citizens, or for someone who wishes to join the city but does not wish to purchase a full plot to join. A "microplot citizen" is a full citizen in every other detail, allowing "de facto leases" on the Platz as well (by allowing all citizens to have a vendor in a certain area, as is currently, for example). The provision that an owner may assign the technical SL ownership to a group that already owns land is designed for co-habiting avatars, and/or getting around having to establish a group of their own, should they trust another person enough.

Clarification? Based on "Rationale".

It is prohibited for any citizen to own both a microplot and a normal plot, or to own more than one microplot. A citizen may, however, own a microplot using the same group as another citizen owning normal land.

I think there is hardly any prim-allowance motivation in that arrangement. The microplot will yield 3 prims. If the owner chooses to plant a linden tree... hehe... then there's only 2 .


Sudane

Thank you, that wording is clearer. I added the "prim-allowance" mainly because that way you're getting SOMETHING out of it.

I would propose an amendment to 4-14 that

1) the microplot lot be P180.

2) the actual prim allowance be reduced (maybe to 2 per 16 m2 plot)

Rationale:

If Neualtenburg expands south there is nowhere to put a road across the south border of the current sim other than P180. Eevrything else on the south edge is owned Therefore we should use P180t for the microplots and leave enough prims to put a road across it if we end up going south.

no real amendment needed. I left the specific lot intentionally vague.



Difficult. The 3-prim allowance is naturally part of SL.

... although the upcoming major release, 1.9, will allow us to redistribute the number of prims per plot (total must still be 15,000, of course).

My point was that we need to be able to put a road across it if we put a future sim south of the present one. How might one do that?

That won't be a problem at all, Claude. The lot will get divided (I'll do that right away) such that a road through it becomes a parcel owned by the Neualtenburg Raumnutzung. Surrounding that, and occupying the rest of the (former) lot P180, will be the 16m2 parcels. They have their prim allocations. The road will remain Raumnutzung, and thus share its entire prim allocation (sim-wide).


Sudane

How many microplots will the road take out? P180 was originally 640 m2 (40 plots).

I have marked a parcel in P180 for a "South Roadway Right of Way". It uses 208m2. That leaves 27 16m2 plots. I marked a sample one and put a tree and a plant on it.

I suggest that if we use this system that the plots be landscaped by us and the owners be prohibited from any alteration. They are just too tiny, and alterations would have serious impact on their neighbors.


Sudane