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This steady, not-so-suitable ratcheting up of requirements to gain access, gain admission, has a history as old as our nation. From poll taxes and Jim Crow laws to gerrymandering and redlining, we’ve witnessed it all — and outlawed it all, one practice after another.
Now and then at a public hearing, some troubled official or citizen deplores the dearth of affordable shelter. Then: silence. Nothing happens. Suddenly, after an appropriate delay so that the last set of requirements has been forgotten, a new regulation is bom, swathed in lofty rhetoric about protecting the environment and our “view shed.” It is presented with scarcely a nod or notice to the fact that we are restricting admission to our paradise by yet another notch.
The irony of this is that a small mobile or manufactured house violates the environment and our scenery far less than a massive half to one
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