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Nantucket, according to Sunday's Times , is fast being despoiled by parvenus who are tearing down historic houses and replacing them with soulless mansions because of loopholes in the local zoning laws.
A great mini-chapter on the history of Los Angeles floods shows how at a critical moment city authorities rejected the idea of zoning to avoid floods.
There is a term in English for a tennis player reaching a height, for a brief stretch or longer, when he cannot miss, and tennis people call it zoning . I have not heard it used in other cases, but when used it seems to equal tener duende . I do not know whether that use of duende has reached Portuguese speakers in Brazil or Portugal, but if it has not, it probably will soon, because so many Portuguese speakers are bilingual in Spanish.
A similar point can be made about rent control and about the haphazard application of zoning ordinances to commercial establishments.
Time 's sprawl story sensibly points out that planning and zoning are inherently local issues not national ones.