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It goes back to the late 1800's and Early 1900's and like many legal overreaches in the US, zoning laws were primarily spawned from a desire to discriminate on
by enragedcacti 4y ago
It goes back to the late 1800's and Early 1900's and like many legal overreaches in the US, zoning laws were primarily spawned from a desire to discriminate on the basis of race or class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States#Origins_and_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_United_States#Or...
- wrycoder 4y agoWP may not be entirely evenhanded on this subject.
- enragedcacti 4y agoI generally avoid citing Wikipedia directly but in this case I feel it gives a pretty digestible overview while being fairly well sourced throughout. Even if it's not perfectly Fair & Balanced^tm I don't think people in the early 1900s using the law to suppress minorities/the poor is a such contested viewpoint that we need to hunt for the perfectly centrist perspective to get a rough idea.
- Ztynovovk 4y ago[dead]