Opinion: Illinois needs better zoning data before rewriting housing rules – Crain’s

No one has ever bothered to study the way 1,396 localities authorized by the state to enact zoning actually deploy that zoning authority. In other words, Governor Pritzker and the supporters of the BUILD Plan are missing key information that could help them show why their Plan is sorely needed—or how it would play out on the ground. As it stands today, they can’t even tell their constituents whether these localities have chosen to enact zoning—much less whether they allow accessory dwellings or duplexes, impose large lot sizes, or issue parking mandates.

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Irish Patriot
2 months ago

Progressives hate a lot things. And the one thing they hate more than anything else is single family housing. The single family home is everything the progressives hate about western society wrapped up into one package with a nice bow on top. They hate the nuclear family structure which lives in a single family home, as they try to impose non-traditional family structures onto society. They hate home ownership because it represents an individual’s or couple’s wealth. They hate the kitchen and domestic work which they believe oppresses women. They hate inheritance laws that pass the wealth of a single… Read more »

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