1924: @CityRichmondVA 's Jim Crow Zoning Commission begs you to consider "The Necessity of Zoning", part of a series of articles, I'm guessing printed in the @RTDNEWS to win public support for the new policy search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u29590… 
This is an Allen Saville project, architect of Richmond and @CvilleCityHall ‘s zoning after segregation was struck down. Zoning is needed because of “widespread destruction...of values” by business and “the invasion of apartment houses into residential districts”.
The distinction between"residential districts" and "apartments" may seem confusing today, but the 1920s Richmond reader will understand this is a racial distinction. Knight explains why in "Negro Housing" etc
Saville has a clear idea of the Richmond man who benefits from zoning: "He desires protection for his property. He does not with to see his home district invaded by detrimental uses." No factories, no shops, no affordable homes for African Americans.
Additional supporting ideas are added, including reducing traffic congestion (no) and “severe congestion of the population in undesirable areas” which I take to mean African American slums
Why restrict housing types when no one has before? “Property values...overcrowding” which is more code for African Americans crowding into what little urban space is allowed them given Jim Crow policies like racial covenants
We wrap up with a war metaphor and we’re done. Housing must be restricted because this is war.
