It is often suggested that national television news coverage of the civil rights movement helped transform the United States by showing Americans the violence of segregation and the dignity of the African American quest for equal rights.
Television propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by introducing civil rights campaigns, protests, attacks, and awareness in general onto local and national TV stations.
The excerpt provides an example of the regulating zoning responsibility of the local government. This can be proven with the definition of zoning which is; divide into or assign to zones, in particular. When compared to the example provided the definition seems to fit.