[Mogger]

Property freedom, travel freedom, education freedom, crime freedom.

I've always thought of zoning as unconstitutional under the "takings clause".

In a free country you should be able to do whatever you want with your property.

I thought it was the meddling big government leftists that got zoning started.

[SamuraiScot]

I've always thought of zoning as unconstitutional under the "takings clause."

If you own land and local zoning isn't to your liking, it's annoying. But it's local, so it's not unconstitutional--USC is silent on the subject. And that makes sense, since, if you don't like the zoning in one place, you can sell and move to somewhere it's different.

Where I grew up, it was the developers bribing town officials to down-zone to quarter-acre lots so they could bring in the urban people that drove us crazy, and eventually drove us elsewhere.

[marktwain]

I've always thought of zoning as unconstitutional under the "takings clause".

In a free country you should be able to do whatever you want with your property.

I thought it was the meddling big government leftists that got zoning started.

It is the state government working to impose state tyranny on the local elites, essentially imposing state zoning.

[Alberta's Child]

In a free country you should be able to do whatever you want with your property.

I agree. But that means you're REALLY on your own ... no road access, and no utility rights-of-way to provide water, sewer, electric power, fiber optic connections, etc.

It wasn't "big government leftists" who got zoning started. It was ordinary, delusional people who insisted they were "free" while demanding every taxpayer-funded amenity they wanted to make their lives comfortable.