History (Un)made: Berkeley City Council Votes to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning
History (Un)made: Berkeley City Council Votes to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning The city that invented single-family zoning in 1916, for discriminatory purposes, will completely remove that exclusionary legacy from its zoning code. February 24, 2021, 10am PST | James Brasuell | The Berkeley City Council, the very first city in the United States to implement single-family zoning, now commonly referred to as exclusionary zoning, has voted to completely upend that legacy. By a unanimous vote of 9-0, the Berkeley City Council last night to end single-family zoning citywide, the latest in a s...