Dave, The lack of zoning and run away business ventures often make the evening news. This happens in both high-end and low-end areas. Right now a developer is building a high-rise condos in a neighborhood filled with average houses. The home owners don't want the extra traffic nor people peeping down into the backyards.
In the the low end, some doctor will buy a house and two days later it's a business. After that one by one they turn into used car dealers, smoke shops, crude restaurants--you name it. Our regulations are based on subdivision rules. Often older neighborhoods have let these rules lapse, so there's nothing homeowners can do about it. I suppose many would make money by selling, but others just want to live the rest of their lives there. In my subdivision, built in the mid 70's, we have trouble because many of the homes are now rentals. Often a contractor will rent a house to put up his crew--guys like roofers, concrete guys or yard guys. As you might have guessed many are illegals from Mexico. So we have houses with 8 pickup trucks, guys drinking beer and playing Mexican polka music into the night. It takes months to get them out--lawyers and the whole deal. We have a guy now who parks his 18 wheeler beside his house. We have warning signs and he's been sent letters, city won't site him until requested by the homeowners committee despite the fact that those kinds of vehicles are not legal. On the other hand it's probably easier to get things going in business. So this is still the wild west in some ways! Bob > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob > Werre <b...@...> wrote: > > > > Our little chunk of the world, Houston, doesn't have zoning. > > That's a pretty big chunk of populated world to have no planning or > zoning? How do the residents know what's gonna happen in their > neighborhoods with no zoning or planning? That's gotta be a big > negative for neighborhood stability and long term house price > appreciation? ..dave > > . > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
