Zoning has been around for a long time. Our county zones minimum acreage for subdivisions (any split) for a variety of reasons - to preserve prime ag land, deer wintering range, ensure adequate distancing for septic systems/wells, keep building out of flood zones, etc. You can’t just split off what you want and sell it or give it away.
Zoning has been around for a long time.
Many cities do quite well without zoning.
>> Zoning has been around for a long time... You can’t just split off what you want and sell it or give it away
Well, the last part of what you say is certainly true!
And xoning has been around a long time. It used to be local folks getting together and forming realistic regs to protect each other.
Now it’s self-important all-wise elite bureaucratic rubes going off to college to learn “city planning”. There is one thing and ONLY one thing in mind when they restrict development...
HOW TO MAXIMIZE TAX BASE. PERIOD. SCREW THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE RESIDENTS!!!!
Zoning is another element for control and manipulation of private property by the various fascists and speculators infiltrating government.
In my county, politicians, engineering companies, and construction firms bought up property near the villages over the years, hoping to make a killing by restricting building to those areas controlled by them with zoning. The citizens shot down the zoning laws. Now the speculators and bureaucrats who hoped to make big bucks off real estate deals are stuck with crappy property nobody wants to build on and businesses don’t want to move into.
The fascists and speculators tried the usual scare tactics to pass zoning, including the old bluster about a pig farm moving next door. Zoning is nothing more than the American version of soviet socialism.
Not In Houston.
Our county has no zoning laws. Each development makes up their own. No doubt this will change some day.
