Protecting Vital and Pressing Governmental Interests—A Proposal for a New Zoning Enabling Act

Authors

Douglas W. Kmiec, United States Department of Justice

Publication Title

Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law

Abstract

One can now convincingly demonstrate that less government would result in more house at less cost. Many local communities, however, continue to regulate in a manner that either imposes subjective and costly aesthetic preferences, or arbitrarily adopts the misguided opinions of a central planner over the informed wisdom reflected in the cumulative demand of thousands of housing consumers.

Recommended Citation

Douglas W. Kmiec, Protecting Vital and Pressing Governmental Interests—A Proposal for a New Zoning Enabling Act, 30 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 19 (1986)
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_urbanlaw/vol30/iss1/3