This is why: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/docs_pdfs/parking_req.pdf https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/docs_pdfs/par... Develope

This is why: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/docs_pdfs/parking_req.pdf https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/docs_pdfs/par... Developers effectively can't 'outsource' parking. If you want to build anything, you get to build parking. For a long time, building a parking garage cost more than just buying a bigger plot to develop. Now that's not the case, but the rules haven't changed, so it would take a developer with deep pockets to build a parking garage, and it would have to be associated with a massive development project.