What if another Harvey sized storm hits the Houston area?

[kemahkami]

Originally Posted by Hopelesscause

It’s dense enough as it is. How do you expect traffic to move within the core?

Have you not heard of public transit?

[Soccernerd]

I was initially thinking about how zoning would have to change. Growth will slow or even reverse...but then I decided that nothing would change honestly and everyone nationally would forget about it after a few months.

[Mark Senior]

Zoning, working now, no. I remember zoning being a consideration back in the 1960's thru the 1970s. Maybe someone will remember or will know if a vote for or against was ever held in Houston.

Add on:

Well heck, I spent a whole three minutes of research and found this:

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/f...zoning-sort-of

[cBach]

Originally Posted by Soccernerd

I was initially thinking about how zoning would have to change. Growth will slow or even reverse...but then I decided that nothing would change honestly and everyone nationally would forget about it after a few months.

Those unaffected would continue as normal. Those flooded would either elevate and rebuild or if they finally got tired of the heat, humidity, and flooding, move somewhere else.

[Mr. Clutch]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Zoning, working now, no. I remember zoning being a consideration back in the 1960's thru the 1970s. Maybe someone will remember or will know if a vote for or against was ever held in Houston.

Add on:

Well heck, I spent a whole three minutes of research and found this:

https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/f...zoning-sort-of

The planners like to call what we have "zoning lite" - basically a very permissive form of traditional zoning without the specific focus on land use.

And IIRC traditional zoning has been voted down three times - once in the 50s, once in the 70s, and once in the 80s or 90s. At this point the city is so big (and quite honestly doesn't have that many cases of land uses that make you go WTF?) that I don't think it matters either way whether we ever have traditional zoning or not.