Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation director of research and local government studies, explains that government planners saddle private property owners with regulations based on an outdated vision of the way people should live. Sanera offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 359).
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