The City Council on Wednesday will consider new buffering and lighting requirements...
The expanded rules have been in the works since early 2021, when the city received a large volume of complaints from residents across Houston about high-rises and other commercial buildings springing up in their neighborhoods, according to Suvidha Bandi, the principal planner at the Houston Planning and Development Department.
“The change would help make the ordinance more equitable because, right now, even if you live in a single-family home, if it’s on a smaller lot, the buffering requirement doesn't apply to you,” she said. “And we want to encourage high-density development to happen along major corridors, streets, major thoroughfares rather than in highly residential areas along local streets.”
The Greater Houston Builders Association, which represents the city's residential construction industry, is also on board with the amendments. “I would just say we continue to have challenges where someone may be holding over on a property, for let’s say over a decade, and because they are under the original application they don’t come under the new rules,” Kamin said during last week's City Council meeting. “I would just respectfully ask that we continue to look at that.
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