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Friday Funny: Zoning Provides Nationals Fans With Another Bragging Point Over Astros Fans
The worlds of baseball and zoning collide again.
Dan Malouf writes:
The Nats won the World Series! WAAHOOOOOOO! And now, ever on-watch for the urbanist angle to a story, GGWash is here to shamelessly embed all of the mocking tweets the DC Council’s Twitter account posted about Houston’s zoning during the World Series.
Malouf explains the context, Houston's lack of zoning, for anyone not in on the jokes, which you'll have to check out at the source article. Please keep us posted for the response from Astros fanbase regarding taxation without representation.
Published on Thursday, October 31, 2019 in
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