Ridiculous Rules We're Expected to Live By
by LaTaYea
Did you know that you can buy a million-dollar property and not be allowed to even put up a little tent on it? Ahh, zoning.The principles governing zoning regulations are basically sound, founded in the concepts of appropriate and intelligent land use. But somewhere along the way, like with many good ideas, people lose sight of fairness and common sense, yielding to favoritism, political maneuvers, and downright good old-fashioned greed.
The laws today regarding land usage and management are often written in favor of bigger corporate or governmental bodies, disregarding the genuine and often very legitimate needs of the "common man." The bureaucracy and red-tape involved in the regulatory boards and building industry today, let alone the fact that the building trades don't even have sustainable materials to use, all contribute to ever-increasing laws and regulations against practicality and sustainability.
Getting to know your neighbors, having a town square and common marketplace, and creating a genuine sense of community in villages and towns and cities, seems to be a thing of the past, yet it's needed more than ever now. Without taking the time and spending the energy to get to know one another and find out what individuals and groups truly need, we're doomed to continue creating more problems, rather than solutions, for ourselves. There's the "letter of the law" and then there's the "spirit of the law." We need a Spiritualution™—a spiritual solution—to create true fairness and sustainability. In God's kingdom things are not always equal, but they are fair. I pray more fairness can come into all the "zones" we each live in.