Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days
by shuckles on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:22PM
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There are a myriad of ways Houston does control land use beyond zoning such as minimum parking requirements and private covenants.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days
by bilbo0s on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:37PM
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Yeah.
In Houston, we have what is effectively zoning. It's just that we do it at the neighborhood level. You want to go into the museum district or third ward and develop x, or y, or z? No problem. So long as the neighbors agree with you.
Hint: Once they gentrify to the point of being called "The Museum District", they will definitely not agree with you.
I saw someone above throw out a figure of 3 or 4 hundred k as a price point and I had to chuckle. If all you want to do is build a low-rise for workforce housing? Yeah, this neighborhood wouldn't care if you had the money or not. Piss off peasant. The people in the Museum District no longer wish to reside in proximity with your kind.
In Houston, the zoning is way worse than in other cities.
Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days
by somethoughts on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:45PM
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What I've noticed too - when I've visited a couple of times - in addition once you move out of the city center, in the suburbs surrounding Houston, residential developments with strict HOAs are pretty much the de facto standard for residential developments.