You’re mixing a whole lot of issues there buddy, and none of them have to do with this particular problem in Texas.

“Planners?” WTH? People have been gathering in cities near resources, particularly the sea since — oh I don’t know — since people started living in cities, and centuries if not millenia before we even knew what fault lines are.

“More dispersion” is a good one, particularly in Houston, Texas where I was a teenager. If you don’t have a car there you are fucked socially, because there is virtually ZERO public transporation. Over 40 years I watched many a 2 lane blacktop in Houston become a five lane concrete mini-highway, while bus service degraded and rail lines were literally ripped up. Dispersion is expensive. Power, water, sewage, roads, public transporation, trash, flooding, subsidence, plowing(!!!), phone/internet lines, all have to be extended for “dispersion.” Emissions go up.