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Houston does not have zoning ordinances but it does have zoning-type regulations. https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/houston-doesnt-have-zoning...

> Virtually every affluent residential neighborhood in Houston has strict private deed restrictions — and, remarkably many of those deed restrictions can be enforced by the city. ...

> Some neighborhoods are in effect using historic districts as a zoning substitute. ...

> Several years ago, the city also created a process by which residents and neighborhoods could petition for a minimum lot size or minimum building line, or setback from the street. ...

Or from https://therealdeal.com/texas/2023/03/16/dont-say-the-z-word...

> This lack of zoning has resulted in Houston using other legal and governance mechanisms, such as ordinances, a building code and deed restrictions to impose rules that function as a form of de facto zoning.