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Copy Japan's zoning wholesale and solve all those problems

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Awesome if you can get an area to agree to this. Is there anything close in the US? Houston maybe?

> Awesome if you can get an area to agree to this

Which part of "martial law" is unclear :-) The whole point is to abrogate local powers.

Or someone/some company/government should look into building a new city somewhere in America. Avoid the NIMBYs entirely. Kind of like what Culdesac Tempe is doing but bigger.

Maybe if Culdesac Tempe turns out to be successful someone may attempt this.

But no one wants to live in Houston because it’s city planning is a mess.

Houston is second fastest-growing metro in U.S., census data shows, with post-COVID population surge

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/...

Houston itself is losing people, even if the area is gaining.

Huh, I was going to dispute that statement, but it seems to be somewhat true. I’m actually pretty surprised by that. Interested to see if the historical pattern of growth resumes in the next couple years, or if city population has more or less maxed out at this point.

The Houston area has a huge amount of sprawl potential. If you are into living in that area, then why not just contribute to more sprawl?

Because there are lots of non-sprawl-y parts of city of Houston, and I don’t particularly care for the sprawl, and I’m surprised so many people are in fact picking the burbs.

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