Christians May be Decreasing in Number in America, But Not Because of any ‘War’
…and not just white and wealthy ones, have tried to use land use law to control their communities far more than a century ago. [Perhaps this can be attributed to…
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If We’re ‘Better Behaved’ Just Because We’re Affluent, God is Not Impressed
…as an argument for zoning and government land use control [a form of social engineering] to keep them out of more affluent areas; and interestingly enough a recent study found…
‘Freedom From Speech’ and Freedom From Other Things
…‘personal peace’ or ‘affluence’. I suspect that “freedom from” rather than “freedom to” operates in other areas. Land use is a favorite subject on BlueKennel, and many land use regulations…
The Upper Middle Class Versus the 1%?
…of their communities, but they are just as quick to demand that any land use that threatens their convenience, or potentially their safety, be denied. I cut my political teeth…
Now, Even Apartment Dwellers are Getting Choosy about their Neighbors
…Everything in Its Place by Constance Perin, from 1977. She interviews all kinds of people on their views on how land use should be controlled. Given the date of the…
Some Bleats About the ‘Common Good’
…area. The neighborhood desires to exclude Locally Undesirable Land Uses and housing attainable to certain kinds of people [at one time by race, now generally by income and culture], whereas…
The Last Freedom (and its Relationship to the First)
…of the young or rehabilitator of criminals.] [Parenthetically I might mention as a practical matter that in one way the “First Freedom” is really property rights and land use; unless…
Arellano Defends the Fire Pits
Columnist Gustavo Arellano, in his inimitable way, defends the fire pits. He even threatens to name the director of the AQMD to the ‘Scariest People’ list that he keeps, a…
Why The Dream Declined
…local land use regulation meant that he could not build the kind of innovative communities Ahmanson might have desired to build. I call to witness the Ahmanson Ranch in Calabasas,…
Changing my mind about single family homes
I used to believe that social justice required that a region be overbuilt [or at least over-entitled at law] in high-density housing and other locally undesirable land uses. Now, thanks…