>and as soon as you suggest that zoning is a government taking Not just zoning, but pretty much any government regulation. It boggles my mind that my state's

>and as soon as you suggest that zoning is a government taking Not just zoning, but pretty much any government regulation. It boggles my mind that my state's equivalent of the EPA can just decree whatever their policy is, which has consequences on what they'll approve or won't, and this affects land values massively, and this doesn't legally get classified as a taking. >they abandon the whole platform to defend zoning. Which is a social problem that pretty much the entire western world suffers from these days. We don't shun, marginalize and otherwise punish people who are chronically two faced and lack principals (whatever those principals may be).