Emphasis Preaching Journal

In 1994 the city planners in San Luis Obispo, California, introduced a measure that would have required every new house to have a front porch. They were not trying to be frivolous by doing that, nor were they trying to promote a particular style of architecture. The idea was that if all the residents of that community had front porches, they would probably sit on those porches, and therefore, they would be more likely to visit with passersby and with people who lived around them.