Planning, zoning, annexation, and eminent domain are the issues on the frontlines of the property-rights debate in North Carolina. Intended for the betterment of communities, zoning is probably the most difficult of issues to understand.
RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai discusses planning penalties with economist Randal O’Toole of the Thoreau Institute and the American Dream Coalition. He recently completed The Planning Penalty: How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable, a national report. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
It's time to add San Jose to the list of cities -- beginning with Portland -- that have promoted the trendiest notions of urban planning and, then, proved them erroneous.
