MacheteJames
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There was a space of about two or three months last summer and fall, following last year's summer of protests over structural racism, where the term "grandfathering" became off-limits due to negative connotations associated with its links to Jim Crow. All of the folks I work with in the planning and development community purged it from their vocabulary in favor of "legal noncomforming". I can recall hearing and reading public comments in which Board and staff members with chided for using the term - i.e. "you guys need to stop using it".
Grandfathering seems like it's now back in the lexicon, at least in the planning circles I travel in. I see it written, and I hear it spoken. Why didn't it stay gone for good?
Grandfathering seems like it's now back in the lexicon, at least in the planning circles I travel in. I see it written, and I hear it spoken. Why didn't it stay gone for good?