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EV Skeptics Clinging to Anything to Try to Deny Obvious Tech Transition (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why you’re using Houston as an example here. There’s little zoning in Houston and it’s a sprawling mess. You couldn’t pay me to live there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

First of all, because the person I replied to asked for an answer that applied to "specifically places like Texas" and it amused me to lean into it. Second, but more importantly, because it's a popular misconception that Houston lacks zoning (it just lacks the word, not the concept, and goes about it in a more ad-hoc fashion) and I was trying to head off replies like yours. I mean, if my thesis is that getting rid of restrictive zoning will go a long way towards fixing the problem and the inevitable rebuttal is "but Houston doesn't have zoning and still has the problem," then I obviously have to address Houston, right? So I tried to do it preemptively... and then you wrote your comment anyway. womp, womp