alt Hacker NewsThe US can't even zone a residential neighborhood without lawyers and special interests jamming things up for decades through endless impact studies and litigation.
Famously, Houston has no zoning.
The US can't even zone a residential neighborhood without lawyers and special interests jamming things up for decades through endless impact studies and litigation.
Famously, Houston has no zoning.
The downside is that then nothing prevents a fireworks factory, or tannery, or whatever, right in the middle of a residential area.
Or, as they say everything is bigger in Texas, why not think big... an oil refinery!