Is The End of Zoning Near?
- William Fulton
- Jun 23, 2019
- 4 min read
Ninety-three years ago, when the population of the United States was about a third of what it is today, a very conservative U.S. Supreme Court shocked everybody in the planning and development world by ruling that zoning is constitutional in the now-famous case of Euclid v. Ambler. To understand what a surprise this was, imagine Chief Justice John Roberts joining with his conservative colleagues on today’s court to strengthen the power of the Environmental Protection Agency. It was that out of character with the conservative, business-oriented 1920s court.
