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                                           October 30, 2001
Some history of zoning regs, from 
"The Geography of Nowhere" (1993)             
by James Howard Kunstler:                      
                                               NOWHERE_MAN 
   "The two elements of the suburban            
   pattern that cause the greatest             
   problems are the extreme                   
   separation of uses and the vast  
   distances between things.  The           
   idea behind the separation of             
   uses had its origin in the                 
   nineteenth century, when                 
   industrial activity became an    
   obnoxious nuisance to city       
   dwellers.  The first zoning codes         
   explicitly sought to protect the 
   property values of residential   
   neighborhoods against such       
   incursions."      p. 117               
                  
  What would have been the alternative 
  to separation by zoning?
                
  Strict emissions limits?  
                            
    Maybe the notion that there's
    a good place to emit bad stuff
    is flawed.

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