The Civic Genie appears and will instantly pass three pieces of legislation in your town. (Not state or federal) What laws will you choose?

1.) Law to make me eternal king of the city.
2.) Law to mandate my exorbitant salary and discretionary fund.
3.) Law to stipulate the various details of my city-provided harem.

You guys suck at genies.

Ban cars in the main street. I'm sure you can learn to walk one block. You might even find you enjoy it when you are not having constant near death experiences with cars.

All those parking spaces are now spaces for pop-up businesses. Food vans, shipping containers that are now selling vegetables, outdoor dining, art fairs, etc.

You can now legally live in those apartments that people used to live in built above the existing shops, before that was made illegal for reasons unknown.

1. Progressive vacancy tax - the longer a commercial site sits empty, the more the tax is.
2. Abolish most residential height and density limits.
3. Rent control

1. If you buy it, live in it- no more commodification of homes.

2. zero tolerance driving policies that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists and blatantly discourage driving.

3. safe supply. Anything that was going to be disposed of in police evidence is to be tested and used to start the program. Can't get people to a place where they want to be treated if they're dead.

1. Property and income tax funded high speed internet available to all persons and businesses in city limits free of charge. Also, power, water, waste management, and any licensing and registration fees are all eliminated and they get funded by property and income taxes instead (also fees for public copiers at court houses, libraries, etc).

2. Sleeping in public is legal, sleeping in parked cars is legal, cars can't be towed from the parking lots of businesses outside of the businesses' operating hours, and no person can be denied use of a public bathroom (regardless of whether or not they purchased anything).

3. All businesses and public buildings will be made handicap accessible through city funded grants and fines for non compliant property owners, and rental property owners will be required to make any accessibility modifications a tenant might require.

A perpetual levy to keep the schools funded, and it floats with CPI or some other index to remain relevant.

Public oversight of police.
Outlaw police unions.
Ranked choice voting.

Free public transport, buildings/residences incur additional council rates when sitting empty, better permitting system for food trucks on public property.

1. Term Limits (Goodbye family-connected people who haven't done shit in 20 years)
2. Church Is Now a Library (Goodbye assholes who expelled my friend's fiance for cohabitation, while the minister cohabitated with his girlfriend)
3. Anticorruption (Certain people on the council rent their properties/sell things to the town at "market rates")

No income properties for single family homes. Punishable by jail.

Companies will now have their minimum pay decided by majority vote for up to 70% of the previous year's profit divided by the number of people employed and companies are decommissioned when they're found to exploit people in large scale.

People have to give me specifically a blowjob on request. I mean universal basic income. That.

More bike lanes in the center, especially for long distances

More rail infrastructure in the outer parts, especially an outer ring by light rail or subway

Better funding for Schools and stuff

Is this lah lah land where I can pass any law I want locally without it being superseded by state or fed? Then

1.recreational pot is now legal with 32 plant homegrow limit

2. Psylocibin mushrooms are now legal and can be sold wherever alcohol, tobacco, and weed are sold including state run stores

3. HOAs are outlawed, you can now do whatever the fuck you like with your own properties and not pay yet another yearly fee to an at-best-incompentent-at-worst-malicious burocracy. I have to deal with enough of those already

No one eligible for social security can hold office.

Return downtown's roads to being footpaths.

Allow safe biking on the sidewalks

Free electricity and water

1. Term limits, the same 3 families have been running my town for 40 years.
2. a bypass, we're a very small town with a huge tourist industry, and the township refuses to approve a bypass because it would divert traffic away from the tourist trap, regardless of the fact that it takes half an hour to cross a town with a single traffic light.
3. investment of the tax money into the community. Again, we have a huge tourist industry and a shit ton of money comes into town from it, yet our roads are absolutely terrible, half the town doesn't have sidewalks, and honestly I don't know where any of the money goes.

• Mixed Zoning
• All streets/roads must have sidewalks and separated bike lanes
• UBI

1. Ban cars
2. Legalize drugs
3. Basic income for unhoused and impoverished funded by said drug taxes

Naturalized Landscapes: Reduce budget by naturalizing all public landscapes, alter "unkempt yard" qualifications, incentivize against lawns.

Smart Density Overhaul: Destroy developer's abilities to build detached home subdivisions, build public homes that are integrated with landscapes and require less upkeep from homeowners, maximize leisure and the things that actually make people happy, roads are... not what they currently are. Subsidize rural taxi service.

Industry Perks: Tax incentives for industrial employers relative to employee's salaries. Similar remote work incentives for professional-managerial employers. A study on commercial office use will be conducted to determine how to best move in to new work arrangements.

1. Ranked choice voting
2. Real estate reform law regulating and limiting the powers of home owners’ associations, and banning corporate ownership of single-family dwellings
3. UBI for the un-housed and homeless

Mandate funding of public transportation at a level that makes it easier to use than a car.

Make roads (all roads that are already built) available for that transit, any existing road can become a trolley line or train.

Set the footprint of the county where it is, already there is too much sprawl so no more expansion allowed, build where there are buildings only, all green space preserved, fund to buy back land for parks when density increases, and once "greened", no longer available to build on.

Phase in a ban on consumer grade gas powered outdoor equipment. Electric only.

Revise residential parking to allow more in line with densification.

Crack down on negligent property owners that let properties get run down. Especially developers that let properties sit,.and most especially with houses that just get boarded up and the property goes to hell.

• City cycle network.
• Tram lines for entire Greater Manchester including my area.
• Better funding for mental health care.

You should post a federal version of this question after this post calms down.

The current laws aren't really enforced so none

Im surprised no one mentioned outlawing HOAs

Land Value Tax. Election by sortition. I'll have to think about the last one.

all rentals must offer an option to build equity and own the dwelling in at most 35 years.

incorporate as a city with municipalities sharing the same school district.

bds.

edit: fuck those downvotes are fast. I guess some people love landlords and Israel.

1. There's a big cult headquarters in my town. I would take away their "religious" tax exempt status. They own so much property!

2. I'd increase funding for education (teachers salaries, classroom supplies and resources, funding for building and field trips and experts to visit) The funding can come from the other two changes

3. I would put a huge tax on any homes where the owners of the home are not the primary/full time occupants. This is a big tax on private equity firms that buy houses, second homes owned by out of towners, and landlords. Our community will benefit from citizens who are fully committed to our town and single home owners should have an advantage in our housing market.

• Tax exempt status not based along traditional lines but based on what brings people together, if it has to exist and if taxes have to exist. I'm surprised people aren't rewarding what makes a dead town not dead.
• A better school system with a better teacher's union and better restraint of powers of faculty, because what has become a vessel of knowledge and community has become a body that dismisses all except the preservation of wealth and power.
• Refine transportation so it's less crude and isn't taken for granted.

1. All zoning and appearances laws banned unless it is by direct vote supermajority, over 66% of registered voters vote yes for it, and it has to be on the ballot when it is not November.

2. No evictions or plea bargains without a jury trial with no legal way to wave that right.

3. No business may garnish the pay of an employee for student loan or medical debt. Likewise no bank. Failure to do obey will result in a special tax on said business equal to double the amount taken.

It doesn't matter because the #fascist #GOP will override them at the state level. See Florida for more information.