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How 'Wild West' growth may have led to devastating flood in Houston

People walk through floodwater near Interstate 10 in Houston on Sunday. Rising water from Hurricane Harvey pushed thousands of people to rooftops and other higher ground. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
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The Washington Post · Shawn Boburg, Beth Reinhard

HOUSTON - Houston calls itself ”the city with no limits” to convey the promise of boundless opportunity. But it also is the largest U.S. city to have no zoning laws, part of a hands-off approach to urban planning that may have contributed to catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey and left thousands of residents in harm’s way.

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