We Are Watching

Did you ever get the feeling this is what Planning and Zoning are all about ? Remember planning is not zoning and zoning is not planning. Is our community any better off by the government taking the community's resident's property rights away from them for the false premise that it is for the communities good ?

•Remember in the 1926 Supreme Court case Village of Euclid v Ambler Realty Co. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of comprehensive zoning, only because, a planner and attorney Alfred Bettman submitted a "friend of the court" breif on behalf of the Village of Euclid, arguing that zoning is a form of nuisance control and therefore a reasonable police power measure. The court agreed. The court did not agree with the arguments made by the Village of Euclid that zoning should be used to protect the general welfare of the community.

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