The Land and Water Sector

The Land and Water Sector will regulate issues of land and water. This Land and Water Sector will intersect with the Environmental, Identity (ownership), and the Transportation Sectors. This Sector would handle zoning and border disputes within America.

A high percentage of issues will be addressed at the CRA level, and a few topics are likely pushed up to the representatives at the Sector Board level. An increased Rating Floor would encourage greater cooperation at the CRA level.

All land and water will be private; however, specific sections of land and water could be mandated to be under the ownership of publicly traded corporations where citizens can buy stocks and have voting rights for the board of directors. The Haley2024 reform of Corporate Proxy Groups would be beneficial.

The goal of the CRA Structure is to have as much done at the CRA level. When standards need to be increased to keep property values up, the Rating System could implement Rating Floors.

There will likely be some issues where it would be beneficial to move a few items to the CRA Sector Board level. Rating Floors and moving regulations up to the Sector Board level must deal with negative externalities. Property values and quality of life issues are externalities.

Public Parks

Every citizen, business, landowner, and other entities would be mandated to buy into nature parks and other public places at all three levels of government. These public places would be privately owned publicly traded corporations that must meet a high Rating Floor on public access, environmental standards, and upkeep.

These corporations would take over the city, state, and federal parks as well as other public places. It is likely many of these will come with membership fees.

Right-Away and Transportation

If someone bought all the land around your land (360 degrees), they must allow right-away and transportation. There would be many protocols regarding right aways and transportation. Rating Floors would likely be the best tool to handle these issues.

Zoning

A business could not easily build a noisy, polluting, and traffic-heavy factory close to a residential neighborhood. An established noisy and polluting factory or pig farm has the right to continue if many homeowners build close to the existing farms and factories. The property owners have/rights.

All the hard work of property rights, zoning, water rights, and other related issues have been done in America. These CRA Structure reforms will take all the existing lessons and laws and slowly change them. The long-established ‘fences’ would not be able to be taken down quickly. The CRA Structure allows for better experimentations. Ratings and Rating Floors would likely be the best tool to improve standards.

Homeowners and BusinessOwner Associations

Some cities and states might force all neighborhoods into homeowners and business-owner associations with a maximum size (population and land area). The HOA would be more inclusive than the current HOA’s because they could take over many city functions. The HOA’s would ensure proper water, sewer, electric, and other utilities are covered. Utilities would be owned by their distinct corporations; however, many HOA’s might have a mandate of stock ownership tied to each home.

The Haley2024 reform of Corporate Proxy Groups would be beneficial in allowing proper and professional management.

The Law Enforcement Sector would take care of police and other first responders; however, the HOA’s could help ensure proper fire, EMT, and police coverage. Every Sector will take care of their Sector’s responsibilities.

The CRA method of representatives would be far superior to the current voting method because everyone would be represented by an organization they picked based on their values and policies. The reform of splitting all government power into thirty Sectors would allow your opinions and views on each issue to control your choice of representation.

Changing Voting Thresholds

At the beginning of the transition from the current system, all CRA’s would need to keep and enforce existing laws. If 50% of Sector Board representatives declare the removal or diminishment of a regulation would negatively impact the quality of life of the citizens or property values of the area, the regulations must remain.

The Land and Water Sector deals with some quality of life issues that is unavoidably community-wide. A 70% requirement for the Rating Floors could keep standards too low. For example, a noise ordinance, eye-sore, odor ordinance, or moral norms are unavoidably within a small geographic area.

Low standards interfere with individual and ownership rights. Every locality will determine at the beginning of the transition to the CRA Structure whether they will have a 40%, 50%, 60% or 70% Land and Water Rating System vote to increase Rating Floors or to allow the Sector Board to regulate (with the same percentage) across all CRA’s in the Land and Water Sector. This will give different localities a chance to determine what works best for them. These lower percentages will only be for a specific group of regulations. These lower percentages would be for small geographic areas such as 100 square miles or less than 100,000 people.