Intensive and Unwarranted Big Government Intrusion into People's Lives

This CBS News Story has to be a joke, but it's not:

"The current ordinance prohibits more than three people from living together
unless they are related by "blood, marriage or adoption. The defeated measure
would have changed the definition of a family to include unmarried couples with
two or more children. "

This is big time governmental social engineering, no matter what one's view of children, or unmarried couples with them.

The government forcing values upon people is not consistent with American values, which is that the people, not the government, determine what those are. While it is a far cry from even the mildest of many far more stringent edicts of some Middle Eastern countries, it smacks of the same mentality. As much as it would be nice to have couples with children be married, that is their decision, and to take something away as basic as housing, it to in effect take that decision away in that locale.