Interesting that they start out citing Houston Texas as "the one major city in America that has avoided zoning, was doing well. " The lack of zoning puts peopl

Interesting that they start out citing Houston Texas as "the one major city in America that has avoided zoning, was doing well. " The lack of zoning puts people in houses literally adjacent to industrial hazardous waste and Superfund sites. Kids and dogs literally end up playing in hazardous waste, and when the regular hurricanes come, the zone is flooded, spreading the industrial waste directly into residential areas, e.g., [0,1]. But no, because they can cite evidence from a century ago that zoning was used in some cases for exclusionary purposes, it must all be bad. I've lived in towns that abandoned zoning, and the only ones it benefits are the fly-by-night land developers, and it is not many years later that it is restored. But that only happens AFTER the abominations that everyone hates are now set it stone, and all they can do is try to prevent more. [0] https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/harvey-toxic-waste-sites-houston https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/harvey-toxic-waste... [1] https://apnews.com/article/floods-health-hurricane-harvey-toxic-sites-houston-27796dd13b9549b0ac76aded58a15122 https://apnews.com/article/floods-health-hurricane-harvey-to...