Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by utexaspunk on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:12AM
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I dunno- Houston is notorious for its lack of zoning, yet it still grew the same sprawling manner. The fact is most of our cities did most of their growth after WWII. A baby boom, affordable automobiles, the interstate highway system, advertising, and FHA subsidies made mass suburban developments like Levittown profitable and desirable.
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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by nommm-nommm on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:50PM
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Houston pretty much has zoning they just don't call it zoning.
https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youv...
>Matthew Festa [is] a land use professor in Houston...
>For all that’s been made of Houston’s infamous lack of zoning, Festa said it increasingly seems that reputation isn’t deserved or even accurate.
>“We do have a lot of land-use regulations,” Festa said. “We still have a lot of stuff that looks and smells like zoning.”
>To be more precise, Houston doesn’t exactly have official zoning. But it has what Festa calls “de facto zoning,” which closely resembles the real thing. “We’ve got a lot of regulations that in other cities would be in the zoning code,” Festa said. “When we use it here, we just don’t use the ‘z’ word.”