OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on zoning. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. A short introduction to a big and controversial subject that ultimately involved the Supreme Court in 1926 in the Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty decision. It’s easy to see how sensible zoning might have prevented this horror show in West, Texas (yes, the town is called West, and I don’t refer here to the larger geographical region of West Texas), or this one in Northwest Houston seven years later.
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