Andrew Wilkow is a radio talk show host who’s featured on the Sirius/XM Patriot Channel.  For a number of years, he’s been warning his listeners that the Left is planning to change local zoning laws to eliminate single-family housing, in favor of large apartment complexes.  This plan is designed to continue to eat away at our personal freedoms in order to advance several goals of the Left.  First, they believe that single-family home ownership is unfair and racist.  If I have a single-family home and you don’t, where’s the equity?  And it’s racist, well, because they say anything they don’t like is racist.  In addition, this is part of the idiotic climate change agenda.  Apparently, having people crushed together in giant apartment buildings is better for the environment than single-family homes, and packing them in makes it easier to take away our personal vehicles, in favor of mass transit.  Overriding local zoning regulations isn’t a new concept.  Il Duce Obama starting talking about it when he was in the White House.  Local zoning laws were bad because some vile localities actually impose limits on building and minimum lot size requirements.  And since deserving welfare recipients, most minorities, and those they like to call “working people” can’t afford homes on two acre lots, it was unfair, and OK, sing along with me …  racist.  This argument was bullshit back then, just as it’s bullshit now.  I know this because, although I’m a “working person,” although my income is in the top 10% nationally, and although I’ve been saving money for 50 years, I can’t afford a home on a two acre lot in New Jersey.  No matter.  The bottom line is that, unless you’re a wild-eyed Marxist, the plan to end local zoning makes no sense.  The problem is that the Democrat Party has been taken over by wild-eyed Marxists.  Yet that fact aside, until recently even I was a bit skeptical of Wilkow’s constant warnings about zoning.  Then I heard about New York City’s new plan to “fundamentally transform” its zoning laws.  They call it, “The City of Yes.”  That euphemistic title requires some explanation.  Politicians resort to euphemism when they’re about to do something much of the electorate doesn’t want.  That’s the case here.  It was explained by Mayor Eric Adams, no less. and there is no less.  According to Adams, this new plan is designed to reverse what’s known as the NIMBY (not in my back yard) problem.  Not surprisingly, people who’ve invested their hard-earned money in homes in safe, quiet areas, don’t want things like, prisons, homeless shelters, and massive housing projects in their neighborhoods.  That’s the “City of No.”  Adams, and the Marxist New York City Council, are changing that into the “City of Yes.” How?  By calling their freedom grab “the City of Yes,” and by imposing their will by sheer force, the public be damned.  The City claims, “the sweeping changes are an example of the city self-removing some obstacles to better align with the momentum generated by new major climate-driven initiatives.”  Where did I put my hip boots?  Here are some of the details.  Homeowners will be allowed to add accessory dwelling units (ADUs) such as backyard cottages up to 800 square feet, or garage conversions.  The city says ADU’s would help seniors “age in place” and give younger generations a chance to save on rent by living at home, but separately.  Great huh?  Stick grandpa in the garage.  What about all those assisted living and over 55 communities?  Ready made illegal alien housing.  Plus, you’ll never get rid of your kids.  And nothing says “Third World country” better than lean-tos in every yard.  The City also will legalize previously illegal conversions, such as basement apartments.  But there’s more.  The plan wants to prioritize placing new housing developments near public transit – specifically 3-to-5 story apartment buildings on large lots near train stations.  The city says “this will reduce car reliance, traffic congestion and carbon emissions while also supporting the MTA with increased ridership.” (As well as supplying more victims for the muggers on the subways – its a win win).  And where will they get the large lots on which to build the 5 story apartment buildings?  No problem!  Another part of the plan eliminates  parking mandates for off-street parking for new housing.  “Builders will still have the option to include parking in new developments, but would be less inclined to.” (Less inclined Hell, if the developer can put up the building without using space for parking he makes more money).  But what about the existing parking lots not near mass transit?  I’m glad you asked.  8,500 acres of parking lots will be used to build solar panels, to power more than 130,000 homes.  They think of everything, don’t they?  Adams didn’t say how the remaining 3,170,000 households will be powered when they end fossil fuels.  But if they can just figure out how to make the sun shine long enough from November to April, they have the problem licked.  And even if they can’t, living so close together, New Yorkers will be able to huddle for warmth.  And, don’t worry, Mayor Adams hasn’t forgotten about the electric cars Joe Biden says we all have to drive.  The plan more than doubles the space for vehicle charging facilities, adding an additional 400 million square feet.  As this is written, it’s 11 degrees in Chicago and many of that City’s electric vehicle charging stations have been rendered inoperable by extreme cold temperatures.  A number of Teslas are being pushed through the streets.  That’s good exercise though.  Maybe it’s Joe Biden’s version of the presidential physical fitness plan.  At the end of the day, the City of Yes plan is just the latest Leftist plan to steal individual freedom.  Remember that its goal is “removing obstacles” to advance their fever dream climate change agenda.  Because to the Left, your God given rights are just that – obstacles to their insatiable power grab.  First they canceled law enforcement.  Now they’re cancelling zoning.  And step by step, life becomes poorer, meaner, harder, more expensive, and less comfortable for all those who work hard and follow the rules.  Make no mistake, the City of Yes nonsense is coming for all of us.  New York and other big cities are just getting there first.  Here in New Jersey, developers are building multi-unit apartments and condos rather than single-family homes.  The mostly deserted Monmouth Mall in Eatontown is being partially torn down so Kushner can build 1,000 apartments in the space.  Rumor has it that the same thing is in store for the once-bustling Livingston Mall.  Wilkow was right.  A  government that can forcibly change behavior can control the people.  So, when Democrats tell you “democracy is on the ballot,” believe it.