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Are Houston’s Deed Restrictions “Basically Zoning”?

April 11, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Are Houston’s Deed Restrictions “Basically Zoning”?

Houston doesn’t have zoning. As I have written about previously here on the blog, this doesn’t mean nearly as much as you would think. Sure, Houston’s municipal government doesn’t segregate uses or expressly regulate densities. But as my Market Urbanism colleague Michael Lewyn has documented, city … [Read more...]

Filed Under: planning, zoning Tagged With: bernard siegan, deed restrictions, hoas, home-owners associations, Houston, land-use regulation, private covenants, private governance, zoning

The Disillusionment of the American Planner, or How We Became Mark Brendanawicz

February 12, 2018 By Nolan Gray

The Disillusionment of the American Planner, or How We Became Mark Brendanawicz

Spoiler Warning: This post contains minor spoilers about Season Two of Parks and Recreation, which aired nearly 10 years ago. Why have you still not watched it?Lately I have been rewatching Parks and Recreation, motivated in part by the shocking discovery that my girlfriend never made it past … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, history, Jane Jacobs, planning Tagged With: city planning, high modernism, Jane Jacobs, leslie knope, liberal planning, Mark Brendanawicz, parks and rec, parks and recreation, peter hall, planning, ron swanson

Is Zoning Popular? Reevaluating the Evidence

January 25, 2018 By Nolan Gray

Is Zoning Popular? Reevaluating the Evidence

In my regular discussions of U.S. zoning, I often hear a defense that goes something like this: “You may have concerns about zoning, but it sure is popular with the American people. After all, every state has approved of zoning and virtually every city in the country has implemented zoning.”One … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, planning, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning Tagged With: Chicago, euclidian zoning, history of planning, Houston, new york, planning, racial segregation, scpea, St. Louis, szea, zoning

Mini review: Suburb, by Royce Hanson

January 17, 2018 By Michael Lewyn

Mini review: Suburb, by Royce Hanson

Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest is a scholarly book about planning politics in Montgomery County, a (mostly) affluent suburb of Washington, D.C.  The book contains chapters on redevelopment of inner ring, transit-friendly areas such as Friendship Heights and Silver Spring, but also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Logistics & Transportation, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, planning, Transportation, zoning Tagged With: downzoning, level of service, Washington

The Progressive Roots of Zoning

November 24, 2017 By Adam Hengels

The Progressive Roots of Zoning

by Samuel R StaleyBefore the twentieth century land-use and housing disputes were largely dealt with through courts using the common-law principle of nuisance. In essence if your neighbor put a building, factory, or house on his property in a way that created a measurable and tangible harm, courts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: history, Law, planning, Policy, zoning Tagged With: Edward Bassett, history, New York City, planning, progressivism, zoning

Cities Should Not Design for Autonomous Vehicles

November 13, 2017 By Michael Hamilton

Cities Should Not Design for Autonomous Vehicles

Coauthored with Emily HamiltonLast week, the autonomous vehicle company Waymo began testing cars in Chandler, AZ with no employees sitting in the front seat. While Waymo is busy creating systems of vehicle-mounted sensors that allow cars to safely navigate existing urban infrastructure and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, planning, Transportation

Congressional Housing Subsidies Won’t Lower DC Housing Prices, But Liberalizing Zoning Will

August 2, 2017 By Josh T. Smith

Congressional Housing Subsidies Won’t Lower DC Housing Prices, But Liberalizing Zoning Will

During his last days in office, former Representative Jason Chaffetz must have forgotten he is supposed to be a fiscal conservative. His recent comments that members of Congress need $2,500 stipends to afford housing in DC reflect a complete ignorance of both the reasons for high housing prices and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, dc, height limits, housing affordability, jason chaffetz, washington dc

(Not So) Infinite Demand

July 18, 2017 By Michael Lewyn

(Not So) Infinite Demand

In a recent blog post, Julia Galef has generated a fairly comprehensive list of pro-housing arguments and counterarguments to those arguments.She gives the most detailed consideration to the "infinite demand" argument- in her words,“So even if SF adds a lot of additional housing, prices will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, Michael Lewyn, NIMBYism, planning Tagged With: housing, new york, San Francisco, tokyo, yimby

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