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“scientific nonsense” is a great term for setback requirements, which, based on my study of historical zoning ordinances, every city just copied from another city’s ordinance. Totally arbitrary numbers that were made up in the 1930s that we still enforce today in my community (seriously our setback requirements date to 1938 and haven’t changed since).

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What's semi-amusing about this is that the parking demand not only isn't coming from the churches/business owners, it isn't even coming from the DRIVERS. Nobody ever actually petitioned their government for this. It's purely an artifact of bureaucrats making rules because without rules to make they have no raison d'etre.

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What's semi-amusing about this is that the parking demand not only isn't coming from the churches/business owners, it isn't even coming from the DRIVERS. Nobody ever actually petitioned their government for this. It's purely an artifact of bureaucrats making rules because without rules to make they have no raison d'etre.

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What's semi-amusing about this is that the parking demand not only isn't coming from the churches/business owners, it isn't even coming from the DRIVERS. Nobody ever actually petitioned their government for this. It's purely an artifact of bureaucrats making rules because without rules to make they have no raison d'etre.

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Technocracy through scientism, the management of society through scientific principles, has been around for over 100 years. It was attempted in South American countries in the 1930's and failed. This approach had its proponents here in the US and in Europe as well and many wanted to impose these ideas from the 1930's onward.

It is based on a philosophy that sees people as parts of a machine and its backbone relies on central planning, ie, socialism/communism, and as such is antihuman and anti-God. In fact, some of Scientism's defenders were proud eugenicists with religious-like trust in Darwinism's survival of the fittest and we can definitely recognize these tendencies and ideas in today's think they're God Build Back Better people and organizations. Wake up everyone, these people think of us as useless eaters and as hackable animals.

We should beware and distrust policy impositions that rely on scientific claims, such as safe and effective, as we are being fooled with language to comply with dangerous ideas and novel technologies and medicines like mrna "vaccines" (biological weapons, or as the Department of Defense calls them, countermeasures). We are to "believe" and trust in the scientific arguments as we used to trust and believe in our religious convictions.

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...and, of course, if such parking requirements didn't stop a church / small business from opening or cause the demolition of an older building, the church / small business just moved out to the suburbs and fueled unnecessary sprawl.

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That closing line was [chef's kiss]! "The costs of zoning regulations and parking minimums are very real. But—like God—they are mostly unseen."

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