When zoning is 100% at the local level one can vote with his feet and pocketbook to go to the neigbhoring locality. That is an essential part of democracy.... letting us vote. And many of us do precisely that. Mineapolis zoned to favor one way, St Paul a different way. The same way with KC MO and KC KS. The same most everywhere. Some states were right-to-work and some were union shops.
The more the municipal codes are made uniform, the less choice individuals have. We move from a democracy where we can vote to a tyranny of the self-appointed elite.
Unfortunately our own conservative friends are logically inconsistent on this issue. Bloomington-Normal housing market has a need for student housing near ISU. The private market is seeking to fulfill that need by building private housing on private property in a way that endangers nobody. But it is the conservative home owners who oppose 2020 plans are the ones opposing others private property rights.
Meanwhile, the central planners sit back and laugh as the private housing developers are forced into the arms of the central planners by the logically inconsistent NIMBY conservatives.
“Meanwhile, the central planners sit back and laugh as the private housing developers are forced into the arms of the central planners by the logically inconsistent NIMBY conservatives.”
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Amen!
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