And it's coming out of the city I just left:

As America gets fatter, policymakers are seeking creative approaches to legislating health. They may have entered the school cafeteria -- and now they're eyeing your neighborhood.

Amid worries of an obesity epidemic and its related illnesses, including high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, Los Angeles officials, among others around the country, are proposing to limit new fast-food restaurants -- a tactic that could be called health zoning.

The City Council will be asked this fall to consider an up to two-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South L.A., a part of the city where fast food is at least as much a practicality as a preference.
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Merlan said it wasn't likely that a limit on new restaurants would change peoples' habits, even though he thinks it's a good idea.
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This is "bringing health policy and environmental policy together with land-use planning," he said. "I think that's smart, and it's the wave of the future."

In other words, it's government life planning.  It's cradle to grave, we'll tell you what to do and how to do it, and you'll like, planning.  The timing of this article is perfect given the conversation I was having with my brother-in-law Randy on Labor Day.  I mentioned how something or another was just another example of a "nanny state" law, and he asked what the "nanny state" is.  I'm still trying to figure out if he was being sarcastic or not.

I'll have more on some of these perspectives in a later post.  Via Cato at Liberty.