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To: Mogger
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.

39 posted on 06/20/2022 5:41:01 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

... bribing town officials...
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I live about 75 miles from Madistan, WI. Underpopulated vacation area, only some of the land suitable for farming, and the Madison middle class that vacations here considers it isolated and without amenities outside the golf/lake developments.

Madison SJWs tried to convince the County to lease them multiple acres at a reduced rate so they could construct a *summer retreat* for *underprivileged youth*. County said, nah. Several other attempts offering Federal grant money, same response.

One of the reasons we are glad we chose this area. Another was the response to burgeoning property valuations. They lowered the mil rate, restructured local government, and consolidated a couple of departments to make up for lower revenues.


78 posted on 06/20/2022 7:48:23 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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