Quote Originally Posted by seventyseven77 View Post
This is insane! You want to tax real property that doesn't exist?

Profit incentive is why I develop. If there is not one, I wouldn't. Property taxes are the largest expense I have on any/all properties.

If there is an incentive to develop, it will happen. If there is none, it won't, and people will hold land.
This may apply for you but OKC has numerous “buy and hold” examples that refute your all-encompassing declaration. They don’t have the resources or ability to develop these key properties so they are simply hoping some bigger fish will come in and offer them stupid money for the land.

Your purity ideology is why OKC has so many empty tracts sitting undeveloped in prime, extremely developable locations. There are plenty of developers who would move forward with land along Scissortail Park, but to do so they would have to offer insane money to the land squatters.