Is Zoning Bad For Good Neighborhoods?

Is "common sense" more successful than land use zoning?

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December 13, 2000, 8:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Land-use zoning started more than 80 years ago as a way to keep rendering plants and other noxious industrial uses out of residential neighborhoods...industrial, commercial and residential land uses became routinely segregated in U.S. communities. And zoning became so widely embraced that even neighborhood stores are banned from neighborhoods."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Some say zoning is bad for good neighborhoods

Monday, December 11, 2000 in The Columbus Dispatch

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