Did you know that the first zoning laws were created to keep the Blacks segregated from the Whites?
Did you know that early zoning laws were created to keep poor people away from rich people?
Did you know that zoning laws were created to break-up the ability of poor people to have self-sufficient farms and businesses so they would have to work in the factories as cheap labor?
Did you know that zoning laws were used in Europe, especially in Germany, to create a regimented society and gave rise to German militarism and the NAZIS?
Did you know that zoning laws are being used today to grow the power of a criminal syndicate?
To read more, go here: Zoning & the Fourth Reich (now in three parts)
For background material, read The Clichés of Zoning and The Metrocrats.