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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure why this is a bad thing. We have a limited amount of land, so we should be increasing density where this is infrastructure, rather than eating up our arable land for single family home on acre plots an hour outside our cities. It is crazy and unprecendented in human terms to be so wasteful.[/quote]

Leave it to the liberals to dictate where people should live, how much land they can own, and how big their home can be. 
Which party is the "authoritarian" party?  [/quote]

It was conservatives who created the concept of zoning which dictates what you can build, where you can build it and how big it can be, but go on with our bUt tHe lEfT

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OMG, "conservatives" didn't create the concept of zoning. The concept goes all the way back to early human civilization. But in the United States at least, it was a largely popular movement based on the industrial and commercial development of the early 20th century.[/quote]

LOL, nope it was racists in Cleveland. Please see zoning law.[/quote]

I would say there were multiple drivers. Some was race-driven (forget Cleveland, consider Baltimore), some intended to keep certain industries (slaughterhouses) away from residential areas, keeping skyscrapers from shadowing residential neighborhoods. Not one thing. And not always popular:

[quote]During their inception, zoning laws were harshly criticized as an overreach of government power.[2] Some believed that they were an unjust restriction of private action, while others believed that the power of zoning would be corrupted in the hands of bureaucrats. General P. Lincoln Mitchell went as far as to call zoning laws "an advanced form of communism."[2] Others supported zoning laws for their uniform and consistent application, and believed that they would be a force of social equality. The constitutionality of zoning laws was highly debated until the ruling of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty.[47][/quote] (Wikipedia on zoning in the US)[/quote]

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