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Originally Posted by Cappy
While not entirely the same, Houston is pretty well known for not have any land-use codes, with various caveats:
Outcomes are generally the same, but cheaper/faster than cities with land use ordinances:
Also, i could be completely off here and the two couldn't be similar at all. but, it's interesting
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I think the biggest problem with the Houston no zoning expirement is tilting the scales by building massive road infrastructure everywhere.
I'd be curious to see what kind of city you'd end up with if you did that and combined it with a massive investment in transit instead.
In Houston, the assumption is that having a grocery store every 10km is fine, because it's a forgone conclusion that you need to jump on a giant freeway to get there, and as a result, that city is an incredible hell hole which a dread ever having to visit.