A Little More On Zoning Preemption

And a reason to be cautious about it

I’ve been following the YIMBY-Strong Towns debate over state preemption of zoning, as well as the issue more generally. Strong Towns folks are mixed on the question but lean skeptical of empowering states, even in a deregulatory way (which is one of the basic nuances of this whole debate—that unwinding government power is itself a political process); YI…