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And, what do you propose? Regulating home and lot size or prices? Surely, you're not arguing that large homes and lots should be outlawed so that less affluent home buyers can buy homes?

Lot sizes and neighborhod design are regulated NOW. Zoning laws currently prohibit the developement of traditionally planned neighborhoods and even affect housing design. They restric free market choice among people who want to buy single family homes on smaller lots in traditionally designed neighborhoods.

I propose removing existing laws which outlaw traditionally planned neighborhoods ... the exact kind of neighborhoods many people want to live in and that only the wealthy can afford. They pay top dollar to live in older well planned neighborhoods that would be illegal to build today in most cities.

When it comes to government control, it is not the people who want big lots in sprawling subdivisions who are being "regulated". It is people who would prefer other choices who are regulated.

The anti-sprawl people are for free choice and changing the zoning laws so that we can build more traditionally planned neighborhoods as we did in 1920 to 1950 before sprawl type design mandated BY LAW through zoning codes. Anti-sprawl architects and urban designers want laws such laws removed which restrict the ability to build different types of neighborhoods, specifically the tried and true traditional single family neighborhoods.

"The anti-sprawl people are for free choice and changing the zoning laws so that we can build more traditionally planned neighborhoods as we did in 1920 to 1950 before sprawl type design mandated BY LAW through zoning codes."

So you say. I have no problem with "traditionally designed" neighborhoods. I do have a problem when the anti-sprawl types want to outlaw any thing but that solution. I do have a problem when the anti-sprawl types want to force people to live in high density developments. I don't have a 10 acre tract, but one day I plan on living far out in the woods on a 400 acre piece of land. Some anti-sprawl types would pass legislation preventing me from living there.