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In America (land of the free) it is considered normal for all the surrounding landowners and/or voters to decide how you may use your own property. Typically y
by someguydave 5y ago
In America (land of the free) it is considered normal for all the surrounding landowners and/or voters to decide how you may use your own property. Typically you must ask permission or change local laws to use land in other-than-narrowly-prescribed ways.
- wyager 5y agoSince land covenants were legally neutered in the 60s, law is sort of the only avenue people have left for trying to make sure the community they live in is the kind of place they actually want to live, and doesn't turn into a factory district or a ghetto.
- staticautomatic 5y agoYou forgot about trusts. And HOAs. Also, CC&Rs are still a thing.
- wyager 5y agoThey exist but you can't do much with them anymore, hence why zoning is such a popular strategy.
- sneak 5y agoSeems to me that "land of the status quo" might be a better term.
- someguydave 5y agothat or “land of I got mine”
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoPersonally I'm rather glad my neighbor can't turn his property into an industrial hog farm.
- someguydave 5y agoyes but the reason is because of smells that will cross onto your property. plain tort law will allow you to seek compensation for that
- vidarh 5y agoThere's not a single country in the world that doesn't put restrictions on what land owners can do with their land, on the basis that everywhere in the world has realised that what you do with your land affects the lives of everyone surrounding it. You can consider that a limit on freedom, or you can consider that allowing a total free-for-all would infringe on the freedom of neighbours to enjoy their land - maximising freedom involves finding compromises that minimises the restrictions, not having none.
- someguydave 5y agoThe “total free for all” is used as a scare tactic to justify an otherwise unjustifiable infringement on property rights. Arguing for the us local property zoning scheme is the same as arguing for corrupt local developers to control local land use.
- vidarh 5y agoI'm not arguing for the us local property zoning schemes. I'm pointing out that painting giving your neighbours a say as a problem is no more of an argument for liberty than arguing for restrictive zoning. Both significantly harm any prospect of liberty.