{"id":13912,"date":"2024-06-12T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:51:34","slug":"zoning-regulations-empower-control-freaks-and-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13912","title":{"rendered":"Zoning Regulations Empower Control Freaks\u2014and Bigots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Imagine you&#8217;re a member of a religious minority that&#8217;s on the receiving end of a lot of hate, and the local zoning board is giving you a hard time over plans to expand your house of worship. Is it regulators being their nitpicky selves? Are the neighbors weaponizing rules to squeeze out the cars and foot traffic that accompany any successful endeavor? Or could it be hostility directed at your faith? Zoning has been used and abused in all these ways, which underlines the need for reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Cd5VN91B7S\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/05\/15\/zoning-regulations-empower-control-freaks-and-bigots\/\">Zoning Regulations Empower Control Freaks\u2014and Bigots<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Zoning Regulations Empower Control Freaks\u2014and Bigots&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/05\/15\/zoning-regulations-empower-control-freaks-and-bigots\/embed\/#?secret=BYWXFT0fn9#?secret=Cd5VN91B7S\" data-secret=\"Cd5VN91B7S\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Imagine you&#8217;re a member of a religious minority that&#8217;s on the receiving end of a lot of hate, and the local zoning board is giving you a hard time over plans to expand your house of worship. Is it regulators being their nitpicky selves? Are the neighbors weaponizing rules to squeeze out the cars and foot traffic that accompany any successful endeavor? Or could it be hostility directed at your faith? Zoning has been used and abused in all these ways, which underlines the need for reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/05\/15\/zoning-regulations-empower-control-freaks-and-bigots\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[236,551,739],"class_list":["post-13912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}