Chico CA mega-planning / zoning project
From Chico Enterprise Record 12/06/22 CHICO — Valley’s Edge, the largest development project Chico has seen, got a 5-2 recommendation last week from the planning commission and seems to be on its way to becoming a reality. The plan, which is about 14 years in the...
That Which Is Seen — And That Which Is Not Seen
Frederick Bastiat In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause — it is seen. The...
History of Zoning in the US — Euclid vs Ambler 1926
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case argued in 1926. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice of zoning. The Supreme Court's finding...
Anti-Zoning Project: The Jute Mill of Kolkata
From 1874 to 2006, the Surah Jute Mill was part of the sprawling network of jute production in Kolkata. Since then, it has been sitting vacant in an otherwise centric and lively neighborhood. With land being in high demand and low supply in the city, we view...
Land & Liberty Magazine — Joseph Milne
It is encouraging to see there is a growing awareness of the commons. This is partly through good historical research and partly through the pressing question of global warming. Research has shown how the commons have been eroded through land enclosure driving...
Murray Rothbard on Geoism
From mises.org Seventy-five years ago, Henry George spelled out his "single tax" program Progress and Poverty, one of the best-selling economic works of all time. According to E.R. Pease, socialist historian and long-time secretary of the Fabian Society, this volume...
Reply from Fred Folvary to Mike Cuneo — on Geolibertarianism
Libertarianism is the ethical proposition that all and only coercive harm is evil. Geoism (also called “Georgism” after Henry George) is the proposition that the rent of land should be either shared equally or used for public revenue. Geo-libertarianism combines these...
California GOP message stream for subscribers
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social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: an unbridgeable chasm
Murray Bookchin For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to...
Is Libertarian NIMBY or YIMBY?
Introduction This series of articles on libertarian approaches to mid-level state political office that attempts to answer the question: do libertarians know how to actually govern? We are seeing an upsurge in the interest of influencing local...