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.
Granted. You are now the eternal king of The City.
The City pretty much immediately falls to ruin because you don't know anything about economics, and most of your residents leave. With the economy unable to support your rule, the state has to intervene to save the region.
They charge you with gross neglect, and considering all the lives you've ruined, give you a life sentence. You're immortal now (eternal king), so they pretty much just seal you in a steel reinforced concrete box and drop you in the ocean.
Nothing happens for billions of years.
The sun expands and incinerates the earth. You can't die but you're in pain beyond imagining from all the heat and radiation.
This continues for a long time.
Eventually the sun expels the outer layers in a stellar nova and you are condemned to drift across the universe struggling for air for all eternity.
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.
If you buy it, live in it- no more commodification of homes.
zero tolerance driving policies that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists and blatantly discourage driving.
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.
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).
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).
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.
Free public transport, buildings/residences incur additional council rates when sitting empty, better permitting system for food trucks on public property.
i live in something like a resort town. the property is impossibly expensive, and the rent is punitive. i don't want the looky-loos feeling too compelled to stick around, but people who work here should be able to afford to live here. i wrote my real wish.
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.
Term limits, the same 3 families have been running my town for 40 years.
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.
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.
Some drugs (alcohol, opiates, meth) do fuck up your brain with long term consistent use associated with addiction, but most people don't fall into that unless they have some sort of severe external stress or genetic predisposition. You can see this with alcohol which despite its acceptance by society is one of the most harmful drugs out there, but most people who consume it do so in relative moderation.
Drug prohibition fucks ups society way more than drugs can fuck up your brain. It creates a police state that targets the poor and minorities. It gives money to cartels and gangs that cause violence. It doesn't even stop drug use, those who want it can still get it, it just makes drugs less safe as theirs no quality control leading to adulterants and an incentive to make overly concentrated substances like fentanyl, which probably wouldn't exist without prohibition.
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.
Reminder that the prompt said a town level not state or federal. There is no individual town that would be capable of sustaining Ubi it would have to be at minimum a state level thing to be successful
Idunno, I feel like a sufficiently large city could do something along those lines with sufficient political will.
Maybe not some little population 47, one stop sign "town" out beyond Bumfuckistan...but maybe a proto-UBI as a economy-boosting supplement could be worked out in a city of 100K+ residents.
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.
Is there a mayor or a council? I admit don't know ins and outs of sortition. I kind of like it, but not sure I have the stomach for a single major role left to chance. Seems more plausible that a group of people selected by chance would still function.
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.
No evictions or plea bargains without a jury trial with no legal way to wave that right.
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.
There's a big cult headquarters in my town. I would take away their "religious" tax exempt status. They own so much property!
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
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.