In an article shared over 5,000 times in just two days, Robert Richardson of the preparedness/survival site Off Grid Survival claims that the city of Seattle, Washington, is attempting to outlaw land ownership for families.
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The American Dream is literally turning into an American Nightmare, as tyrannical politicians seek to limit your rights to own land.
Seattle, Washington may be one of the first major cities in the United States to outlaw land ownership for families.
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Just like everything these days, so called “racial injustice” is being used to push the land ban. According to the idiotic Seattle housing committee, owning your own piece of land no somehow makes you a racist.
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It started years ago, when we started allowing these unconstitutional government zoning boards to bully us into letting them say what we can and can’t do on our own land.
[/bunk]Ironically, what is being suggested is almost the exact opposite of the way Richardson portrays it. There is nothing at all to prevent land ownership by individuals, or by families. And instead of zoning boards bullying people regarding what they can do with their land, it's actually a relaxation of zoning regulations. It gives you more freedom, not less. Instead of being restricted to a single house on your lot, you could now build two.
The problem with Seattle is that it's running out of room, and two thirds of the land is restricted to single home development. The draft proposal by an advisory group suggests a way around this is to relax the government regulation, to allow for more construction. Here's as strong as it gets:
It's just a (proposed, and unlikely to be fully realized) relaxation of of zoning regulations - the same zoning regulations that Richardson is opposed to. It does not limit land ownership, and actually gives land owners more freedom, not less. It's the exact opposite of what the article suggests.
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