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While it sounds arcane, zoning code is something akin to a city s DNA. The rules about what can be built and where someone can build it determine how a city looks and feels, and sometimes, who can live in its various neighborhoods.
The history of modern zoning practices has its roots in the early parts of the last century, when municipalities across the country used them to attempt to preserve segregation in the face of U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down more overtly discriminatory laws.
Today, zoning has useful purposes like making sure no one can build a toxic waste dump next to your house. But some advocates have called for reconsidering some cities reliance on zoning rules that forbid anything other than single family housing in many neighborhoods. Minneapolis recently relaxed many of its rules around single-family only zoning, and now, advocates like those running an Instagram account called Legalize Housing want Cincinnati to do the sa