Posts Tagged ‘land use’
A New Vision for the Katy Prairie
Over the course of the last month we’ve discussed the Grand Parkway and all the reasons for and against it. I’ve offered an alternative concept that I believe would better support the existing development in the area, and I suggested that I think that also offers a better land-development scenario for the Katy Prairie. Today [...]
Whatever shall we do…
“How can we save the suburbs?” asks Allison Arieff. In urban areas, there’s rich precedent for the transformation or reuse of abandoned lots or buildings. Vacant lots have been converted into pocket parks, community gardens and pop-up stores (or they remain vacant, anxiously awaiting recovery and subsequent conversion into high-end office space condos). Old homes [...]
Land Use Morals
These kinds of things frustrate me… Houston Strategies posted this story, which recaps this story. Both of them basically attribute all of Houston’s economic success to it’s no-zoning approach to land-use regulation. I certainly agree that Houston’s lean regulatory system helps the economy, there’s no question about that. I usually agree with the things Tory [...]