FP,
I could not have said it any better, it created a lottery for land owners.
I guess I was beening like my late father inlaw and asking a question that I knew the anwser to. My mom went to China on a trip with NAWIC, at one stop in Qingdao they meet with the city planner. They had a map on the wall of the city, it was there "GMA" . My mom was told that is how they control the growth in and around the city. She came home and told me that we have become patterned after a communist country.