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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (28016)	8/5/2000 3:03:50 PM
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They are stupid. They fear conservatives want to tell them what to do in their bedrooms but applaud when unelected liberal judges dictate to elected bodies what bedrooms may or may not build within their jurisdiction. by SUSAN PARROTT Associated Press Writer SUNNYVALE, Texas (AP) -- A federal judge ruled leaders in this predominantly white Dallas suburb have been shutting out minorities and the poor for 50 years through illegal zoning laws. U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer said that the city's one-acre minimum for residential lots and its 1971 ban on apartments were written to discriminate against minorities, and that Sunnyvale itself was created because community leaders feared ''residential development planned for black households.'' The judge ordered officials to adopt new laws that would encourage development of apartments and low-income housing. He also ordered Sunnyvale to ''take affirmative action to change its reputation ... as a municipality hostile to minorities.'' Urban experts say Tuesday's decision could set an important precedent in other American cities that practice exclusionary zoning.