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Keys, have used a “tourist impact” tax, a 1 percent surcharge on hotel and motel rooms.
In Boulder, Colo., and Sonoma County, Calif., citizens have approved local sales taxes to purchase vulnerable land and support greenways, mountain views and farmland around the city.
In Missoula, Mt., citizens approved a $5 million bond issue (by a two-to-one margin) for similar purposes.
The other strategy is educating newcomers (and oldtimers) on threats to community values, on the reasonable assumption that most citizens share the values and will want to preserve them:
Citizens of Red Lodge, Mt. (pop. 2000) on the eastern edge of Yellowstone, have produced their own video on the town’s history and sense of community, which "is required viewing for anyone applying for a building permit.
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