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A comment on Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments. Parent comment

Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by tzs on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:41PM (#19444688)
> US zoning laws in particular are responsible for urban sprawl [...]

Houston managed an impressive urban sprawl without zoning laws.

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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by asdff on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:45PM (#19445435)
Just because you are allowed to build 100 stories into the heavens doesn't mean you will when its cheaper to build flat across an empty swath of land. When you hit capacity on that empty swath of land, like in the LA basin, but aren't allowed to build high to meet demand, like in the LA basin, then you have a supply problem.

Imagine the mess that NY would have looked like if Manhattan was limited to single family homes. The city would sprawl across half of NY, NJ, and CT easy.

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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by bluGill on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:53PM (#19444818)
Houston has zoning laws - they mandate parking for example. The laws are generally more lax than other places, but some of their mandates encourage sprawl.
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Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments by astura on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:02PM (#19446255)
Houston has zoning laws, they just don't use the Z-word.

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...

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