I’m going to do something I only rarely try to do, which is post the complete text of someone else’s opinion piece.  This one is worth doing.  It is written by Diana Ionescu, editor of the website Planetizen.  She writes about what I feel to be one of the main issues of the day, zoning reform as a solution to housing affordability.  She writes about what is happening in California, and while I don’t believe that we here in our great state of Utah will go entirely down the same road as the Golden State has, we have plenty of similarities.  Let’s just say that I am posting her entire piece as an object lesson – be careful, this could be us if we don’t try to do things a little differently.  We keep saying we don’t want to be like California, and yet… we keep doing many of the same things!  We need to keep our eyes open and be willing to take a different path, but also realize there are things that can be instructive for us here because of how they have played out there – don’t ignore or underestimate them!