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the government's way of saying you can build a house, just not a bar next to my house.
means a legal system that divides land into categories dictating what can be built where, usually to separate homes from factories and, more controversially, from each other.
from emerged in early 1900s america, with new york city's 1916 resolution as the first comprehensive code, partly a reaction to a skyscraper blocking sunlight on lower manhattan and partly to keep undesirable land uses away from wealthy neighborhoods.
nyc origintriggered by the equitable building's shadow, 1915
single-family dominanceonce covered most residential land in u.s. cities
exclusionary rootshistorically used to enforce racial and class segregation
reform wavecities like minneapolis have since banned single-family-only zoning