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Houston’s municipal code already contains extensive land-development regulations that Matthew Festa has styled a de facto zoning system.3 As Houston continues to grow and grapple with issues around its development, it is essential that the extent of these existing regulations and the system they create be understood.
- Alexius Marcano, Matthew Festa
Aug 17, 2020 · A deed restriction could, for example, restrict a neighborhood exclusively to single-family homes, blocking the development of new apartments. Researchers have characterized these deed restrictions as a kind of de facto zoning. Nonetheless, by 1998 Houston provided an exceptionally liberal, pro-growth regulatory environment for housing development.
Feb 2, 2021 · 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST. Houston is famous for its lack of zoning, but a new court case challenging Houston’s Historic Preservation Ordinance (HPO) is putting that idea to the test. In the eyes of some—including the Texas Public Policy Foundation—the city is engaged in de facto zoning, which would be contrary to both its character and ...
Download Free PDF. Download Free PDF. Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston. Nolan Gray. 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal. See full PDF download ...
- Nolan Gray
zoning was not a violation of constitutional prop- erty rights in the famous case of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926, nearly every city in America —except, of course, Houston—enacted a zoning ordinance in the next few decades. Putting aside the fact that Houston does in fact prescribe nu-merous land use rules, why is it the only major
Regarding land uses, many researchers have observed that these deed restrictions act as a kind of de facto zoning (Speyrer 1989). Indeed, as with zoning, the Federal Housing Administration and private-sector underwriters of home mortgages often require some degree of deed restriction as a condition for approving a mortgage, presumably to minimize the risk.
We have two responses. First, an extensive body of research shows the City of Houston's use of other land use tools, along with the widespread use of private deed restrictions and covenants ...
