"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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"Clyde Slick" wrote in message
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"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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. That's where our first zoning laws came from, old money families not
wanting to live near new money folks.

You don't know ****.
Zoning doesn't differentiate between old and new money

Here's a link to a history of zoning law. My memory wasn't exact but at
least I got the state right.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa072801a.htm


That is entirely consistent with this, from the NYC government

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zonehis.html

Basically, it was about building heights, and separation of commercial and
residential zones.