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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m legitimately thinking about switching my vote over this.[/quote]

Good thing zoning is a local and not federal issue, then.[/quote]

They are going to try to force it on local communities by tying federal funding to zoning reforms. [/quote]

So you think eventually having people commute 2+ hours and not having arable land close to suburbs and cities is a good thing?[/quote]

Exactly.  We need to save our farms, save our small towns, and so on - and the best way to do that is to change our current dumb zoning policies which have promoted sprawl, car dependence, long commutes, and endless acres lost to stupid cookie-cutter subdivisions.  The people who oppose this should take some time to read some Jane Jacobs, who talked about saving cities and having them be livable rather than carving them up with superhighways coming and going, nothing but massive office complexes and so on.  Or read Save Our Land, Save Our Towns by Thomas Hylton.  Europe does not have many of the problems that we do in the US because their towns grew up organically, where zoning doesn't just chunk things out into "commercial here, residential there" and instead has first-floor retail with residential above, and so on.  We really should aim for livable, walkable communities, where you can walk to the grocery store and other things, where you have easy mass transit to work or wherever else you need to go and don't even need a car.  [/quote]

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