Houston creates program to designate conservation districts, aimed at stopping gentrification
Zion Escobar, executive director of Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy, walks past the future home of the Freedmen's Town Visitor Center in 2021. Houston's City Council on Wednesday passed a new program that would allow six neighborhoods, including Freedmen's Town, to become conservation districts.
The Planning Department now will work with residents in those neighborhoods to review options and engage homeowners before the property owners vote to establish a zone. Then they would need approval from the historical commission and City Council to finalize the conservation district. The list of items residents can regulate under the ordinance includes: building height and number of stories; building size; lot size and coverage; front and side building setbacks; off-street parking; roof line and pitch; paving and hardscape covering; general site planning; architectural style and detailing; building materials; exterior alterations; garage locations; fences and walls; and building relocation or demolitions.
"There is no way that this conservation district would come into the neighborhood and change things," Gallegos said.At-Large Councilmember Michael Kubosh failed to win approval of an amendment that would let affected property owners opt out of the conservation district.
They point out that most of the contributing structures to Freedmen's Town have been lost in recent decades, despite federal recognition in the National Register of Historic Places. That designation did not impose any limits on homeowners. Less than 10 percent of the 500 original contributing structures remain.
"This is another tool to preserve historical communities, historical neighborhoods, historical features, so that we don't lose them," Turner told House-El."It's important that we preserve historical communities, just like those bricks."
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