Comments on: David Alpert calls out Virginia Tea Party group as land use statists

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By: Arby

Arby — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0000

You are missing the whole point. Have you not read about Agenda 21, the so called “sustainable living”. If you want to live without benefit of car in an area that government selects for you to live while giving up any and all property rights, more power to you. The tea parties want the United Nations out of our lives.

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MarketUrbanism — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:22:00 +0000

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The Bellows » This Land is Our Land — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:40:06 +0000

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By: Alex B.

Alex B. — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:00:00 +0000

I think you’re spot on here – except that few people would make the argument for local control while also spouting rhetoric about property rights as these VA Tea Partiers do.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:20:00 +0000

There are clashing visions of what “liberty” involves here: a) the liberty of the individual property owner to do what he wants with his own property, or b) the liberty of the individual locality to determine its own land use regulations (which invariably come at the expense of individual property rights), rather than the state or Federal government.

In my experience it is very common for otherwise conservative-leaning towns (typically bedroom communities on the fringes of metropolitan areas) to vociferously support b) — nominally for pro-local government reasons, but factually out of a NIMBY-like desire to “freeze” the development of the town so as to preserve those characteristics which drew the current residents to the area in the first place (and which they believe, erroneously or not, sustain their property values). There have been massive political and court battles over these very issues in states like Connecticut and New Jersey. The states, on the other hand, are not exactly property rights crusaders, but may be responding to pressing concerns of housing affordability and social justice. I don’t believe it all can easily be reduced to “statists” vs. “free marketers.”