2.3% and some change because over the last 10 years "we" agreed to approve some school, and make the bike lane take up a whole lane to be safe for the cyclist, but reduce the capacity of the road by 50% improvement bonds*
and a reminder to everyone, even if you cant get the value down below the 10% year over year homestead increase, fight the damn valuation, because even a small reduction means that next year the fucking county has to try to increase from whatever you lowered it to and go from there.
i might not save you money this year, but it could save future money next year or the year after.
*ftr, i fully supported the school bonds, but the "safety" bonds that got approved to redo the roadways and add a bike lane or bus lane to a road by fucking up the car flow is infuriating.
They are just now starting on Burnet to add a special bus/bike lane by removing the suicide turn lane and put hard barriers in the middle of the road to keep anyone from turning left.
ive also previously shown pictures where the city took an entire right hand turn lane away from where Ohlen meets up with Research, made it a bike lane, and in the process, completely fucked the traffic flow from the parents picking up kids from the school near Ohlen. instead of multiple people being able to take a right hand turn onto research if traffic allows, the number of cars that can take the right hand turn ends the moment a person is in the right lane but needing to cross under 183 (and 90% of the time turn into target on the other side)
the fucking cars in line trying to take a right backs up the road 2 entire fucking blocks. and because they narrowed the road, even the folks going left or middle lane cant do so until the right hand lane traffic moves on a green light.