> Zoning period only exists to stop people of particular races from moving into neighborhoods. This is NOT true. The initial zoning was to separate incompati

> Zoning period only exists to stop people of particular races from moving into neighborhoods. This is NOT true. The initial zoning was to separate incompatible industrial uses from urban uses. A long time ago, people built nasty factories across from housing, a quality of life and public health disaster. US zoning is a disaster again, of course: we have very little mixing for compatible uses (for example low-intensity commercial use near residential) and huge swaths of inefficient low-intensity zoning. ----- That being said, the story of American suburbanization is CERTAINLY a story about race, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. R1 was invented mostly to discriminate against Black people. > "A rowhouse across the street from a high rise building or factory" is not something government has any constitutional basis to regulate on its own Where in the California constitution are the relevant limits/enumerations on Berkeley's powers?