their should be there, typing too fast. We did just fine without zoning for most of the country for hundreds of years. After the Progressives came to power, they pushed zoning not just for the few crowded inner city places where it might actually be of some use, but for all the country, because of the immense power it gave them.
Now, it is hard to find anywhere in the country that is not tyrannized by zoning laws.
Whatt do you know the history of zoning laws? Where did you pick up the information you are stating?
The first zoning ordinances had *nothing* to do with Progressives. They were attempts by property owners to keep property values high as trolleys and suburbanization began in the late 19th Century. Factories, forges and blacksmith shops, boarding houses and slaughterhouses were all among the first “scourges” of property values that homeowners saw driving down the values of their homes.
If anything, they were intened as a way to keep out “undesirables” - especially the urban poor and non-whites, who wanted to escape tebements but couldn’t afford to buy single-family homes. By keeping out boarding houses,
multiple-family residences, apartment houses, and places of employment for the non-skilled, homeowners had a better chance of making sure the right sort of people were their neighbors. It was still legal to put codicils in deeds that restricted ownership of the property as to use and as to racial and religious ownership of the property. This was exactly the *opposite* of what Progressives wanted.
We live in a home that was in the first “suburban” development in the area to permit Jewish ownership - although the first deed to the property forbade its purchase by a “member of the Negro or Chinese race.” Of course, codicils like that are illegal now.
Zoning laws changed as the suburbs changed. The auto suburbs spread following the passage of the Interstate Highway Act, and folks left the cities. But these were the very people that zoning laws were originally intended to keep out.
The first thing *those* folks wanted to do was get rid of agriculture in the suburbs - too smelly and noisy. It’s why my town won’t let me keep chickens in the old chicken coop on my property. Now THAT’S tyrannical!