I think there's a huge difference when zoning in broad-strokes ways (ie residential here, and dangerous chemical plants here) and zoning in micro-targeted, soci

I think there's a huge difference when zoning in broad-strokes ways (ie residential here, and dangerous chemical plants here) and zoning in micro-targeted, social engineering ways, (ie. mixed-use only here, condos here, single-family here, townhomes here, etc.) The hyper-growth 1940s and 1950s that tore up a century of development across a lot of cities left us empowered activists of the 1960s and 1970s that overcorrected policies and laws and gave way too much power to neighborhoods to dictate all kinds of things they really shouldn't have had the power to dictate.