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In a comment to yesterday’s post on land use in Texas, baklazkhan notes that in spite of the libertarian myth of Houston as a completely (or even relatively) laissez-faire city with regards to land use, it actually has pretty strict parking minimums: Additionally, it’s interesting to compare the actual ordinances. Here, for instance, [...]
Houston <3 parking minimums Donald Shoup and Randal O’Toole – they just can’t get enough of each other! Donald Shoup, you may recall, is the granddaddy of free market parking policy, and Randal O’Toole is the self-styled Antiplanner. Though they both claim to be libertarians, they seem to have some pretty fundamental [...] April 7th, 2011 | Tags: Donald Shoup, Houston, parking, Randal O'Toole, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 27 comments |
 printable view“Houston has no zoning” is a very popular urban planning meme. It has its roots in Houston’s lacks one very specific kind of zoning: Euclidean separation of residential, commercial, and industrial uses. Euclidean zoning happens to be the one kind of planning that people easily understand (the whole meatpacking-plant-in-my-backyard fear), and so the [...] January 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Houston, Jane Jacobs | Category: Jane Jacobs, zoning | 7 comments |
printable viewThis is probably my favorite link list yet…enjoy! 1. The WSJ claims that delinquent homeowners can expect to stay in their homes after making their last mortgage payment – that is, they can live rent-free – for at least 16 months. The longer it takes for foreclosures to happen, the longer it will [...] November 28th, 2010 | Tags: China, dc, Environment, food, Hong Kong, Houston, mortgage, New Jersey, roads, Singapore, Southeast Asia | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments |
printable viewBrian Phillips at Live Oaks contacted me regarding the recent post by Stephen Smith on planning in Houston. Brian is a long time opponent of land use restrictions and defender of property rights in Houston. Brian has a different point of view on the subject, and has written a post on [...] December 29th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Houston, libertarian, planning, property rights, regulation, Stephen Smith, Urban Legends, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 6 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith It seems to be an article of faith among many land use commentators – both coming from the pro- and anti-planning positions – that Houston is a fundamentally unplanned city, and that whatever is built there is the manifest destiny of the free market in action. But is this true? [...] December 10th, 2008 | Tags: Dr. Shoup, Houston, parking, sprawl, Stephen Smith | Category: planning, sprawl, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | 18 comments |
printable viewJ. Brian Phillips wrote a great post at Houston Property Rights about liberal property rights in Houston, but what Brian had to say applies to every place. Here’s a snippet, but the entire post deserves a reading: when developers and builders see a need for greater density, they respond accordingly. And they can [...] September 18th, 2008 | Tags: density, freedom, Houston, J. Brian Phillips, Market, property, property rights, zoning | Category: Economics, planning, zoning | Leave a comment |
printable viewHarvard Economist Ed Glaeser wrote an opinion piece in the New York Sun about the differences in housing affordability and other costs of living between Houston and New York. New York is naturally more expensive than Houston because the geographical constraints force higher density development, which is more expensive to build. New York’s [...] July 17th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, density, development, Economics, glaeser, Houston, nyc, zoning | Category: Economics, featured, housing, zoning | Leave a comment |
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