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Deed Restrictions in Houston, Where There Is No Zoning Houston is the largest American city with no conventional zoning ordinance. People repeat that fact as though it means anything goes. It does not. Land use here is governed by private deed restrictions recorded against individual subdivisions, and for a seller they can matter more than zoning would. A deed restriction is a covenant recorded in the county property records that binds the land rather than the owner. It