Single family homes are the American dream yet that is no longer to be expected based on future land use plans that change uses supported. Once the comprehensive or general plan gets approved, the green light is “on” to start to change zoning. Across the US, states mandate cities have a plan that goes through a public review process, although attendance and involvement is low yet these plans are the key to changing a town or city. Future land use is marketed as “not zoning” but acts a guide. Consultants hired to write the plans, create the maps and participate in the local meetings are influenced by the American Planning Association and that organization is tied to the UN and has it published on their website, “APA has been a long-term partner with the United Nations. Maintaining consultative status with its Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) allows APA to advance sustainable development goals with international colleagues.” The UN create plans like Agenda 2030 (implemented) and Agenda 2050 with ties to “sustainability.” This leads to increasing density at the expense of single family homes. The issue is property rights are NOT found as an objective to meet and property rights are KEY to our original constitution yet these are constantly being eroded. This proposal is to require incorporated cities, counties to showcase how property rights are being protected and to disclose all ties with a balance between UN and those anti-UN. This can’t be a one-sided presentation especially without full disclosure. Cities should not receive funding, especially from federal sources, that undermine and change the culture through changes in land use. Super majority voting should be a requirement for each initial plan and each update. All elected officials, appointed commissioners and hired government workers and consultants should be required to disclose their personal net worth and ties to land/property in the community at various points in time (at time of plan, before the plan, x years after the plan). This should be a publicly available database.
End UN regulations, restrictions on all levels.
Love that - and think that is the ideal. However, the policies already in place due to previous support of UN needs to be considered. The “reversal of policies” is a potential goal but reverting to what exactly? The success of decades of planning using UN materials and frameworks like “smart codes” which use form-based zoning are in place throughout cities, urban and even more rural. HUD grants and special “federal grants” like Inflation Reduction Act connected the 15-minute city agenda to utilities, roads and transportation (interstate commerce) which then allows for upzoning discussions. Property rights, as others have written, were protected using patents. Could private deed restrictions be the answer? Again, I like your “root” issue approach.