Zoning laws are so backwards that it borders on parody. Can we get a state-wide referendum to eliminate all but the most important zoning regulations and then let the cities grow naturally?
How do you think zoning laws came about? We had no zoning laws, and then cities grew naturally, and then we had zoning laws. They exist as a result of real problems in the world. Now, some of those problems were definitively wrong [1], and we should clearly have a way to review, modify, and revoke zoning which is bad for society. But throwing them all out and doing nothing else is a quick way to welcome them right back.
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Zoning laws are so backwards that it borders on parody. Can we get a state-wide referendum to eliminate all but the most important zoning regulations and then let the cities grow naturally?
How do you think zoning laws came about? We had no zoning laws, and then cities grew naturally, and then we had zoning laws. They exist as a result of real problems in the world. Now, some of those problems were definitively wrong [1], and we should clearly have a way to review, modify, and revoke zoning which is bad for society. But throwing them all out and doing nothing else is a quick way to welcome them right back.
[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States#Ra...)