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I'm not sure zoning is the issue when you take a look at Houston, a sprawling car-centric city with very lax zoning rules.
by minikites 10y ago
I'm not sure zoning is the issue when you take a look at Houston, a sprawling car-centric city with very lax zoning rules.
- CalRobert 10y agoAh, but Houston has rules designed to force urban sprawl in myriad different ways. They just refuse to call it zoning. Case in point - my old apartment was 2 bedrooms and had no offstreet parking. It was near a number of excellent bars with no parking. Fortunately it was easy to walk between them! Houston has rules forcing people to live far from said bars, and forcing both their home and the bar to have parking (which spreads things out even without density maximums), and makes it harder to patronize those bars without driving intoxicated. https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2016/04/14/sprawl-beyond-zoning/ https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2016/04/14/sprawl-beyond-zo...