Re: Dominant Form of Transportation

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 15:27

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Scott Mace wrote:
> Zoning is consider by folks like yourself as careful planning, social
> engineering. It has gotten us NIMBY opposition to any infrastructure
> improvements (freeways, transit, power plants, transmission lines),
> gridlocked highways, vanishingly affordable housing and now the threat of
> failure of our electric and natural gas supply. It is a failed experiment in
> social engineering.

Just eliminating zoning will not eliminate, or likely even reduce, the
role of the automobile.  In particular, the entire city of Houston has
never had zoning, and there is no shortage of automobile use there. 
People, generally, like cars.

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