Wins / Texas, June 2025
Texas bans large-minimum-lot-size mandates on new starter-home subdivisions
SB 15 caps the minimum lot size Texas cities may require on new single-family subdivisions of five acres or more, removing a common municipal mechanism for blocking smaller, more affordable starter homes.
- Where
- Texas
- When
- June 2025
- What kind
- Legislation passed
- Issue
- Housing
- Work by
- Texans for Reasonable Solutions, Goldwater Institute
Why this is a partial win
This arrived as a state law overriding local zoning. Libertarians divide on that: some hold that a state has no business dictating what towns may forbid. The ledger records it because the person coerced was the owner who could not build, and the day after signing that owner could. The federalism question is real and is not the one the ledger measures. The cap applies only to new subdivisions of five acres or more in the largest cities; existing neighborhoods keep their minimums.
Sources
Where to check it. Every entry on the ledger has at least two.
More from the ledger
Other entries from Texas and on the same issue.
Be counted
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