Houston parking requirement calculator

Where is the building?

Ask this first. Sec. 26-471(b)(6) and (7) switch off the whole of division 2 — the Sec. 26-492 table and every reduction in it — for a building in the market-based parking area or along a primary transit-oriented development street. For those, the required figure is zero, not a reduced number.

Anywhere else in the city Within the market-based parking area (roughly downtown and Midtown — Sec. 26-472 gives the boundary street by street) Along a primary transit-oriented development street

What is the use?

Pick a use classification

Sec. 26-492 states rates for the seventy-two use rows listed above. For anything not on that list, Sec. 26-493 puts the number in the director’s hands rather than in a table — there is no figure to look up, and the four criteria the director must weigh are the whole of the standard.

What this rests on

Sec. 26-493 — The director determines the minimum parking and bicycle spaces for any use not specified in Sec. 26-492, considering documentation of demand, planning and technical studies, requirements in comparable jurisdictions, and requirements for similar uses. read it

Calculated from Houston Code of Ordinances ch. 26, art. VIII. Full calculator and citations at lotcodex.com.