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When I was a youngster
growing up in
the 1950s in the Washington, D C. suburbs, everyone’s favorite pleasure was a Sunday drive. I remember my parents taking me out into the country to Annandale, McLean, Tysons Corner, or even Fairfax. If they wanted to leave the influence of Washington, D C. completely behind, we might take the entire day to ride down to one of my great uncles' farms in Centreville or Manassas.
Looking back, my parents seemed to be keenly aware of the effects of unrestrained, unregulated growth in a time when not many people were concerned with that sort of thing. My father would often shake his head or comment, “No zoning” as we passed through a particularly ugly mix of run-down trailers, junk yards, industries, or poorly designed shopping strips intermixed with tacky new home developments.
Officials of many post-war localities around Washington, D C. did not consider inflicting zoning regulations on their constituents. Tb this day, you can see the results of
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