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Activity Reports - Plat and Permit
Platting Update Newsletters
2024
- Platting Updates: Expect a New and Improved PlatTracker in the New Year New system may require applicant action
- Platting Updates: September 30, 2024: Join Us for Useful Tips and Information on Development and Platting in Houston
- Platting Updates: June 5, 2024: Spanish Virtual Workshop: Chapters 42 & 26 Ordinance Changes
- Platting Updates: March 15, 2024: Chapter 42 & 26 Changes
- Platting Updates: May 20, 2024: Plat Tracker payments will be temporarily unavailable
- Platting Updates: May 24, 2024: Plat Tracker payments will be temporarily unavailable
2023
2022
2021
- Platting Updates: November 24, 2021: Recordation Appointment Scheduling
- Platting Updates: April 2, 2021: Ch 42 Amendment Comment Period is Open
- Platting Updates: February 16, 2021: Planning Commission Cancellation
- Platting Updates: February 12, 2021: Recordation Cancellation Fee
2020
- Platting Updates: November 6, 2020: Recordation and New Harris County Clerk
- Platting Updates: October 27, 2020: Recordation Tax Certificates
- Platting Updates: October 9, 2020: Recordation Appointments Availability
- Platting Updates: October 6, 2020: Plat Tracker Payments & Link
- Platting Updates - September 23, 2020 – Plat Tracker Maintenance
- Platting Updates: September 21, 2020: Walkable Places and Transit-Oriented Design (TOD)
- Platting Updates - August 18, 2020 – Composite Tax Receipts and Mylars for Corrections
- Platting Updates - July 17, 2020 – Platting Updates Flood Prone Areas
- Platting Updates - March 13, 2020 – COVID 19
2016
- Platting Updates - February 17, 2016 – Fees and Notices
- Platting Updates - February 29, 2016 – Solid Waste Collection Plans
- Platting Updates - January 21, 2016 – Fees and Expedited Site Plan Review
2015
- Platting Updates - December 21, 2015
- Platting Updates - November 17, 2015
- Platting Updates - November 3, 2015 - November 3, 2015 – C2, Recordation Docs
- Platting Updates - October 2015 - October 2015 – Amending Plats, Additional Parking
- Platting Updates - August 2015 - August 2015 – Solid Waste Collection Plans
Department Annual Reports
- 2021 Annual Report (.pdf)
- 2020 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2019 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2018 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2017 Annual Report (pdf) | 2017 Annual Report (web)
- 2016 Annual Report (pdf) | 2016 Annual Report (web)
- 2015 Annual Report
- 2014 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2013 Annual Report (pdf)
- 2012 Annual Report (pdf) | 2012 Annual Report (swf) *Requires Flash Player
- 2011 Annual Report (pdf)
Complete Communities
- Acres Home
- Alief-Westwood
- Fort Bend - Houston
- Gulfton
- Kashmere Gardens
- Magnolia Park
- Near Northside (English)
- Near Northside (Spanish)
- Second Ward (English)
- Second Ward (Spanish)
- Sunnyside
- Third Ward
Informational Brochures
- Sidewalk Rules (.pdf)
- Reglas de la Acera (.pdf)
- P&D Brand Guide (.pdf)
- Off-Street Parking (.pdf)
- Land Regulation and Development (pdf)
- What's Planned For Your Neighborhood? (pdf)
- Want to Build a Carport? (Carport Guidelines and permitting) English(.pdf)
- ¿Desea construir una cochera? (Directrices y Permisos para la Cochera) Español(.pdf)
Planning Studies - Reports
- Vision Zero Action Plan - English
- Vision Zero Action Plan - Spanish
- Acres Home Mobility Study Presentation
- Acres Home Mobility Study Final Report
- C40 Healthy, Livable Cities – Direct Technical Assistance Grant
- Summary results – Benefits of the White Oak Bayou Greenway
- Full report – Benefits of the White Oak Bayou Greenway
- Urban Houston Framework 2013 (pdf)
- Houston's Comparison with Major U.S. Cities, 2009 (pdf)
- Feasibility Report: Expanding the Transit Corridor Ordinance Rules, 2009 (pdf)
- Mercury Drive Study, 2009 (pdf)
- Lower Fifth Ward – Analysis for Underserved Communities, 2009 (pdf)
- City Mobility Planning-Phase I: Executive Summary, 2008-2009 (pdf)
- Hillcroft-Harwin Circulation Study, 2009 (pdf)
- Washington Avenue Urban Studies, 2008 (pdf)
- Urban Corridor Planning, 2006-2009 (pdf)
Neighborhood Resilience Planning Documents
- Braeburn
- East Houston
- Edgebrook (Condensed) and Edgebrook (Full Report)
- Fifth Ward
- Independence Heights (Condensed) and Independence Heights (Full report)
- Inwood
- NRP Planning Guide
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