If you don’t like zoning don’t complain when the build the homeless shelter next door to you.
Zoning wouldn’t prevent that, they would just get variance and if the right people are involved and the right amount of money is passed around, it will get approved.
Zoning is to prevent YOU from profiting from YOUR property and puts 100% control of YOUR property into the hands of local politicians who are the most corrupt people in the political world because nobody is focus on them.
Local tyranny is the worse kind of tyranny
I agree...learned that recently when I subdivided some land, for a purpose I wanted, yet their control prevents me from using land, as it is best suited. Committees spend lots of time talking, and accomplish little!
Houston and London are the largest cities with no zoning.
(Though London has historic preservation restrictions)
Neither seems to have much problem with pig farms next to homes