[vaxintar]

Zoning changes between countries, states, provinces, districts, cities, municipalities, and neighborhoods!

In my country, there's an even longer list of exceptions to the zoning rules, and that's just at the federal level. I bet in some jurisdictions, a city council can modify these rules by simply adding an exception for a specific area, block, or development.

City planning has to be one of the most underestimated tasks for city officials. No one can really predict what will happen to a city in the near future. Just think about how many cities were *totally* unprepared for COVID in 2020. An official might have an idea as of how the city should grow in the next 10 years, but in lots of places there's an equilibrium easily disrupted by political shifts, economic downturns, or simply global dynamics that have faster impacts than what city officials can anticipate or comprehend.

[tptacek]

Single-family zoning in America isn't really a city planning decision the way we think it is; virtually all American single-family zoning occurred in the early 20th century as a reaction to Buchanan v. Warley, which outlawed racial zoning codes; single-family zoning was a way to retain prohibitions on Black residents without having the zoning code literally say that.