Genuinely curious as to how much time you have lived or worked in Houston ? I found many pieces of it - some of which were directly related to lack of zoning -

Genuinely curious as to how much time you have lived or worked in Houston ? I found many pieces of it - some of which were directly related to lack of zoning - to be aesthetic disasters. There seems to be a conception that support of zoning, and things like it, need be grounded in some scientific public-good maximalism that probably doesn't exist. I don't feel bound by that at all. The reason I am against ad-hoc liquor stores being run from a walled in front porch of a single-family home converted (badly) to a duplex[1] is because I dislike them aesthetically. [1] Houston, circa 1999.