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To: Dave Reed who wrote (2079)	3/9/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 13060

After being accused of bad faith and blindness in various ways, I do not consider a jest here and there to be so bad.

To: Dave Reed who wrote (2079)	3/9/1999 9:37:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13060

I laid out simple zoning laws that people "buy into" when they purchase property. That is, zoning laws now are so complex that if I had known them all when I bought my house, I doubt I would have bought it. They are too restrictive. I have to have certain ceiling heights, certain size exits from my basement...etc. I have an old house. None of these things match the code. IF I do work on parts of my house that aren't up to code, I HAVE to pay to bring it up to code. That's absurd (or I have to engage in a lengthy and costly petition for exemption...either way, the town wins). I proposed SIMPLE zoning: certain areas for commercial, certain areas for industrial, certain areas for residential, certain areas for public space. How hard is that to buy into? After that, the property is yours....do as you like. All in all, I agree with you. You can't plan perfection. If you could, we'd all live in Portland, OR. Instead, we all seem to want to live in Vegas.... Isn't it odd that the city that planned for perfection isn't growing so quickly and the city that didn't plan for much of anything is growing faster than any other city? I don't think so. Vegas ain't perfect, but it's got more of what I look for than many other cities that make claims to "quality of life". My problem with NEOCON is that his view of life is a strict Aristotelian construct, while the views of Epicurus have begun to be recognized as holding much more validity.... We CAN'T box and categorize everything. We can't MAKE people do everything we'd like them to. Adam Smith recognized this, and recognized that letting people do as they pleased invoked the "invisible hand", which at worst netted a zero effect...but more often turned out a benefit.