The Antiplanner is flying to Salt Lake City today to speak at a legislative forum tomorrow sponsored by the Sutherland Institute. The topic will be Utah’s 30-year transportation plan. Since the Antiplanner is skeptical about our ability to know things even five years in advance, you can imagine what I’ll be saying about a 30-year plan.
Thursday, I’ll be in Olympia, Washington to speak at a Senate Governmental Operations Committee work session about growth-management planning. My main message will be that growth-management created many more problems than it solved. Most important, according to Coldwell Banker, the price of a 2,200-square-foot house in Seattle is more than three times the price of a similarly sized house in Houston.
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In any case, if I get a chance, I’ll try to post some updates over the next few days.
I tend to think the Antiplanner overuses house prices by comparisons. The reason Seattle house is more expensive than Houston, maybe it’s more desired market. Seattle exists on the Washington Penninsula, Houston is in the Center of otherwise non-valuable land. Seattle has waterways, Houston does not. There’s a reason San Francisco is more desired than Fresno.
“My main message will be that growth-management created many more problems than it solved. Most important, according to Coldwell Banker, the price of a 2,200-square-foot house in Seattle is more than three times the price of a similarly sized house in Houston.”
Right, but Houston has growth management. You may like their version of it better and you may call it something other than “planning,” but let’s not kid ourselves.
http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/
Some interesting links on the page above include:
– Development Regulations
– General Plan
– Community Sustainability
– Historic Preservation
– Mobility (see: Complete Streets and Transit)
– Plat Submittal
No growth management in Houston?!?!?! Really?!?!?!
The Antiplanner:
A good busway could move nearly ten times [60,000] that many people.
Sure, if you have something the size of the New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal at the CBD end.
…to speak at a Senate Governmental Operations Committee work session about growth-management planning. My main message will be that growth-management created many more problems than it solved. Most important, according to Coldwell Banker, the price of a 2,200-square-foot house in Seattle is more than three times the price of a similarly sized house in Houston.
I’ll wager I’ll have colleagues there that will make a mockery of that talking point in about a microsecond, and your time would be better spent on the $Bns spent on an auto-oriented tunnel in a seismic zone that will go well over budget and not solve any congestion problems.
DS
It’s not a talking point. It’s fact. Seattle is in a bubble.
Once the next correction hits, lookout! Housing prices will finally adjust.
Once Boeing pulls out in part due to a crazy socialist council member who thinks the factory can be simply “retooled” to produce transit, and once the phony debt-based consumer economy collapses and the imported Chinese labor are laid off from Amazon, look out! This ship will be sinking, and prices will finally come down to realistic levels.
Yours truly is being kicked out of his rented condo at the peak of this bubble because the greedy landlord, a relative of my wife’s best friend, despite promises of indefinite month-to-month and no intention to sell has decided to cash out and is asking $240k for a 800 square foot apartment that hasn’t been updated since 1990. WTF?
As for the tunnel, I told you so, but Seattle voters were worn down by Big Money.
Wanna solve congestion problems? Fix the I-5 bottleneck, stop f-ing with Mercer for four years, and add another on ramp to 99 from the West Seattle Bridge.
For f’s sake.
#seattlesuscksballs
Randal on you way home at the end of the week, and you are driving take US 26 through Portland on your way back home and check out how screwed up East Portland is.