Without zoning: Urban development and land use controls in Houston

Qian, Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2009.11.006

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“…Houston is also unique in that it is the largest city in the country without single-use zoning regulations. Instead, land-use planning in Houston follows a more laissez-faire approach with greater involvement from private groups such as developers, homeowners associations, and super neighborhood councils (Qian, 2010). This is not to say that Houston does not have land-use policies.…”

Section: Land Use In Houstonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These essentially function much in the same way as single-use zoning (Lewyn, 2005), though as Qian (2010) points out, most expire after 30 years leaving neighborhoods with little legal recourse to oppose development. Other government planning initiatives include the creation of tax increment reinvestment zones (TIRZs) and the Land Assemblage Redevelopment Authority to aid in neighborhood redevelopment, and loosening minimum lot size restrictions within the I-610 ring to allow for more compact residential development in the center of the city (Qian, 2010). The city additionally adopted a buffering ordinance in 2011 that protects singlefamily residences from the development of neighboring high-rise buildings (City of Houston, 2011).…”

Section: Land Use In Houstonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The effect of light rail transit on land-use development in a city without zoning

Lee¹,

Sener

2017

JTLU

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Light rail transit (LRT) has become a popular strategy to improve accessibility and mobility in the United States. It has also been touted as a tool to spur urban growth, higher-density development, and revitalization in large, auto-dependent cities like Houston, Texas. Although traditionally known as sprawling and highly autooriented, Houston has greatly expanded its light rail system in recent years. The city is also unique in that it is by far the largest city in the United States without zoning ordinances.The city of Houston is used as a case study to examine land-use development around LRT stations. Analysis of parcel-level land-use data from 2005-2014 revealed a spike in commercial development along the original light rail corridor, approximately 4 to 10 years after its opening. Land-use development along the newer light rail corridors was more modest and not considerably different than the control corridors. Small changes in the levels of high-density residential housing and land-use mix near light rail stations indicated that efforts to encourage transit-oriented development have not yet had much effect.

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Section: Land Use In Houstonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Land Use In Houstonmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of light rail transit on land-use development in a city without zoning

Lee¹,

Sener

2017

JTLU

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“…Studi ini perlukan untuk memberikan perspektif terkait dengan pengembangan property di Indonesia yang berbeda mungkin berbeda dengan yang dipergunakan oleh para pengembang property selama ini. Selain itu hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat menjadi masukan bagi pemerintah daerah dalam menentukan kebijakan terkait zoning permukiman dalam perencanaan kota, sebagaimana yang dilakukan di beberapa negara bagian di Amerika Serikat (Magliocca, McConnell, Walls, & Safirova, 2012;Qian, 2010).…”

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Pemilihan Lokasi Terbaik Pengembangan Properti Apartemen Di Perkotaan Cibinong Raya Kabupaten Bogor

Amanullah

Haryanto

2017

JPK

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Abstrak. Sebagai salah satu penyangga ibukota DKI Jakarta, Perkotaan Cibinong Raya menjadi salah satu lokasi tujuan untuk bertempat tinggal. Pertumbuhan penduduk Perkotaan Cibinong Raya mengalami peningkatan sebesar 16,37% (BPS Kabupaten Bogor, 2016), yang kemudian diikuti dengan peningkatan permintaan akan hunian tempat tinggal. Di sisi lain, ketersediaan lahan di Perkotaan Cibinong Raya luasnya semakin terbatas sehingga diperlukan optimalisasi penggunaan lahan agar mencapai nilai yang optimum. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk menentukan lokasi terbaik pengembangan properti apartemen di Perkotaan Cibinong Raya. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat menghasilkan perspektif yang berbeda dengan yang digunakan oleh para pelaku pengembang property dengan menggunakan variable-variable yang disarikan dari kajian literature yang terkait. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pendekatan kuantitatif dengan teknik analisis Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) dengan para ahli terkait pengembangan property sebagai penilai/responden. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu terdapat empat lokasi alternatif yang layak untuk dikembangkan sebagai lokasi properti apartemen. Keempat lokasi alternatif tersebut kemudian disebut sebagai Lokasi A, Lokasi B, Lokasi C dan Lokasi D. Berdasarkan hasil AHP, didapati lokasi yang memiliki nilai tertinggi dan sebagai lokasi terbaik pengembangan properti apartemen secara berturut-turut yaitu Lokasi D (0,336), Lokasi A (0,309), Lokasi C (0,218) dan Lokasi B (0,139). Kata kunci: lokasi terbaik; Highest and Best Use (HBU); apartemen; Cibinong Kabupaten Bogor[Title: The Best Location for Property Apartment Development in Cibinong Urban Area, Bogor Regency]. As a part of Greater DKI Jakarta or known as Jabodetabek, Cibinong Raya offers alternatives for residence location. The statistic of population in Cibinong noted that its population has grown by 16.37% (BPS Bogor Regency, 2016) that has implication on the increase of residential dwelling demand. However, the amount of non-built area in the city is limited. So, land use optimazition strategy is significant to reach the optimum land-use value. The result of this study is expected to give different perpective of property development applied by the property developers in Indonesia. Hence, this research applied variables derived from the literature reviews and asked the property experts to analyse the variables. Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), it was revealed that there were four suitable alternative location named as Location A, Location B, Location C and Location D. Based on the experts perception through AHP method, the study showed that the highest optimum value was Location D (0.336) and followed by Location A (0.309), Location C (0.218) and Location B (0.139).

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“…Historical records of flood events reported as major by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) indicate a relatively equal importance of these different flood sources [18]. The response of the catchment to extreme rainfall has been further exacerbated by rapid development which has occurred over the century [63], leading to faster runoff rates and larger flood volumes [64,65].…”

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A Copula-Based Bayesian Network for Modeling Compound Flood Hazard from Riverine and Coastal Interactions at the Catchment Scale: An Application to the Houston Ship Channel, Texas

Couasnon¹,

Sebastian

Morales-Nápoles

2018

Preprint

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Abstract:Traditional flood hazard analyses often rely on univariate probability distributions; however, in many coastal catchments, flooding is the result of complex hydrodynamic interactions between multiple drivers. For example, synoptic meteorological conditions can produce considerable rainfall-runoff, while also generating wind-driven elevated sea-levels. When these drivers interact in space and time, they can exacerbate flood impacts, a phenomenon known as compound flooding. In this paper, we build a Bayesian Network based on Gaussian copulas to generate the equivalent of 500 years of daily stochastic boundary conditions for a coastal watershed in Southeast Texas. In doing so, we overcome many of the limitations of conventional univariate approaches and are able to probabilistically represent compound floods caused by riverine and coastal interactions. We model the resulting water levels using a one-dimensional (1D) steady-state hydraulic model and find that flood stages in the catchment are strongly affected by backwater effects from tributary inflows and downstream water levels. By comparing our results against a bathtub modeling approach, we show that simplifying the multivariate dependence between flood drivers can lead to an underestimation of flood impacts, highlighting that accounting for multivariate dependence is critical for the accurate representation of flood risk in coastal catchments prone to compound events.

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Without zoning: Urban development and land use controls in Houston

Cited by 76 publications

References 29 publications

The effect of light rail transit on land-use development in a city without zoning

The effect of light rail transit on land-use development in a city without zoning

Pemilihan Lokasi Terbaik Pengembangan Properti Apartemen Di Perkotaan Cibinong Raya Kabupaten Bogor

A Copula-Based Bayesian Network for Modeling Compound Flood Hazard from Riverine and Coastal Interactions at the Catchment Scale: An Application to the Houston Ship Channel, Texas

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