Amarillo is an inland Panhandle city with no tidal shoreline, so Texas coastal zone management laws and NOAA's coastal development permitting program do not apply within the city limits.
The Texas Coastal Management Program (CMP), administered by the Texas General Land Office under federal approval (16 U.S.C. § 1451 et seq.), applies only to the 19 Texas counties with tidewater shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico. Potter County, where Amarillo is located, is approximately 500 miles inland and is not within the CMP's coastal zone. No equivalent local coastal-development ordinance exists in Amarillo's Code of Ordinances. Development in Amarillo is governed by the standard zoning, subdivision, and building codes found in Title IV of the Code of Ordinances.
No coastal-development penalties apply. Standard zoning and building code violations under Ch. 4-10 and Ch. 4-3 govern development activities.
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