Zoning Reform is Not Leftism (The American Conservative)

[amberlyrose]

I can't believe I'm linking something from this site, but here we are.
They argue against the Trump/Carson Op Ed about suburban zoning, arguing it is actually is a conservative ideal to have less zoning in regard to personal property. 
They make some good arguments for the middle working class and elderly, BUT they also leave out any mention of things like homeless populations/centers, very low income workers that just cannot afford a space to live, and social safety nets. 

"Yet it remains the case that for most of American history, from the time of colonial settlements to the heyday of the robber barons, American neighborhoods grew in response to markets, not zoning. The common law, which we inherited from the Burkean customs of England, regulated development with a light hand: statutes and ordinances spoke on matters of safety, including fire prevention and—in big cities—bans on crowding so severe that it constituted squalor. Many of the current proposals to, say, eliminate or reduce the footprints of single-family zoning, or to reduce massing specifications, could in fact allow American builders to revert to habits that are much more traditional in American life."

www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-is-not-leftism/?fbclid=IwAR2IZcI3H5yArjm13n2FNRdWBjIr0h0IT-3MmQV1vphmqO167XPkZ08ozqs

[rupertpenny]

Omg, I hadn’t seen the original op ed until now. It is infuriating but also hilarious. Spending so much talk about suburbs growing organically, informed by the free market and not government regulation when the whole thing is about keeping existing zoning laws which are government regulations.

But what do o know. I’m just sitting here in my own home, in my safe and pleasant neighborhood in the middle of the socialist hellhole of NYC. I must just be brainwashed by the liberal social engineering.

[ans1999]

Aug 25, 2020 16:07:00 GMT -5 amberlyrose said:

I can't believe I'm linking something from this site, but here we are.
They argue against the Trump/Carson Op Ed about suburban zoning, arguing it is actually is a conservative ideal to have less zoning in regard to personal property. 
They make some good arguments for the middle working class and elderly, BUT they also leave out any mention of things like homeless populations/centers, very low income workers that just cannot afford a space to live, and social safety nets. 

"Yet it remains the case that for most of American history, from the time of colonial settlements to the heyday of the robber barons, American neighborhoods grew in response to markets, not zoning. The common law, which we inherited from the Burkean customs of England, regulated development with a light hand: statutes and ordinances spoke on matters of safety, including fire prevention and—in big cities—bans on crowding so severe that it constituted squalor. Many of the current proposals to, say, eliminate or reduce the footprints of single-family zoning, or to reduce massing specifications, could in fact allow American builders to revert to habits that are much more traditional in American life."

www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/zoning-reform-is-not-leftism/?fbclid=IwAR2IZcI3H5yArjm13n2FNRdWBjIr0h0IT-3MmQV1vphmqO167XPkZ08ozqs

A lot of what Trump argues for is against conservative ideals. Yet, it doesn't persuade the Trumpers to leave him. It's his racism that keeps them coming back.