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Copy Japan's zoning wholesale and solve all those problems
by dymk 3y ago
Copy Japan's zoning wholesale and solve all those problems
- xnx 3y agoAwesome if you can get an area to agree to this. Is there anything close in the US? Houston maybe?
- jeffbee 3y ago> Awesome if you can get an area to agree to this Which part of "martial law" is unclear :-) The whole point is to abrogate local powers.
- farzinadil 3y agoOr someone/some company/government should look into building a new city somewhere in America. Avoid the NIMBYs entirely. Kind of like what Culdesac Tempe is doing but bigger. Maybe if Culdesac Tempe turns out to be successful someone may attempt this.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoBut no one wants to live in Houston because it’s city planning is a mess.
- xnx 3y agoHouston is second fastest-growing metro in U.S., census data shows, with post-COVID population surge https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-second-fastest-growing-metro-us-census-17888963.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/...
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoHouston itself is losing people, even if the area is gaining.
- nocoiner 3y agoHuh, I was going to dispute that statement, but it seems to be somewhat true. I’m actually pretty surprised by that. Interested to see if the historical pattern of growth resumes in the next couple years, or if city population has more or less maxed out at this point.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThe Houston area has a huge amount of sprawl potential. If you are into living in that area, then why not just contribute to more sprawl?
- nocoiner 3y agoBecause there are lots of non-sprawl-y parts of city of Houston, and I don’t particularly care for the sprawl, and I’m surprised so many people are in fact picking the burbs.