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Zoning Reform Can't Fix Everything

Zoning Reform Can't Fix Everything

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Pete Saunders
Aug 21, 2015
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Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, looking northward toward the Loop.  Source: chuckmanplaces.wordpress.com

It's easy to find the critical flaw in the zoning reformer's argument, if you remember this truism -- there is greater variation within metro areas than between them.

I've written before in response to the growing position that strict land-use reg…

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