Houston’s development code governs how land is subdivided and built on: plat approval, minimum lot size, building lines, lot access and off-street parking. We have read and archived five chapters of it.
Find residential construction records by street address. Our pilot organizes the city’s weekly permit reports into address histories, with project numbers, dates and source links.
Browse Houston building permits by address
Our research archive brings together dated reports and source records. Compare July and August permit addresses by ZIP, or download the permit dataset for your own analysis. Watch two short tool demonstrations to see how to check a hypothetical project.
Builders, developers, architects and homeowners run into the same problem: the authoritative text is public but nearly unreadable, and the readable summaries are frequently wrong. We write the readable version and show our source, so you can check us rather than trust us.
Start with how we verify — it says what we check, what we do not check, and what we will never be able to tell you. Then decide how much weight to give the rest.
LotCodex is not a law firm and this is not legal advice. Every page names the section it rests on so you can read the adopted text yourself, and tells you who to ask when the text does not settle it.