[AnthonyMouse]

The main thing you actually want from zoning is to separate noxious/industrial uses from everything else. Houston is weird if it doesn't even do that. None of that other stuff is a problem. Living in a single-family home next to an office tower isn't any worse than living in a condo tower next to an office tower. People just aren't used to it because it's prohibited nearly anywhere else.

[returningfory2]

> Living in a single-family home next to an office tower isn't any worse than living in a condo tower next to an office tower.

By the way, this is very common in many Latin American countries such as Colombia. When you walk through these neighborhoods it's at first a bit odd because you're not used to seeing single family homes next to towers (coming from the US at least). But then you realize it's totally fine and the neighborhoods are in many cases really really nice.

I feel like one partial solution for NIMBY brain is travelling to cities in other countries and seeing things are different and realizing that it's actually totally fine.

[rootusrootus]

> I feel like one partial solution for NIMBY brain is travelling to cities in other countries and seeing things are different and realizing that it's actually totally fine.

I'd be surprised. Plenty of people would be horrified at the idea of living in a detached home next to a skyscraper.

[returningfory2]

That's sort of my point though. It's easy to be "horrified" by things in the abstract. But then you actually visit Bogota, Colombia or Buenos Aires, Argentina and go through these neighborhoods and realize they're actually really nice despite being different to what you're used to.

[AnthonyMouse]

Would they be equally horrified at living in a skyscraper next to a skyscraper?