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Tuesday, a senior city planner shared proposed zoning changes with a council committee. These are changes he said the South Fairmount Community Council has already voted for.

Courtesy of Nick Swartsell While it sounds arcane, zoning code is something akin to a city's DNA. The rules about what can be built and where someone can build it determine how a city looks and feels, and sometimes, who can live in its various neighborhoods. The history of modern zoning practices has its roots in the early parts of the last century, when municipalities across the country used them to attempt to preserve segregation in the face of U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down more overtly discriminatory laws.  Today, zoning has useful purposes — like making sure no one can bui...