Changing Gears: Zoning Out
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 5:54 AM
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Download MP3Zoning may not be the sexiest topic. But zoning is the DNA of a community: it controls how you live, shop, and work. After nearly a century of many cities separating those uses, now, they're going back to the future: trying to recreate an old way of life. They first have to rewrite their zoning code. Dan Bobkoff of our Changing Gears team tells us why.
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Dan Bobkoff talks to ideastreams' Eric Wellman about the role northeast Ohio played when zoning first began last century
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