Brownsville sits about twenty miles inland of the Gulf and holds no public beach. The Texas Coastal Management Program boundary starts at the city's International Toll Bridge, so coastal zone consistency review reaches much of Brownsville.
The Open Beaches Act (Nat. Res. Code Ch. 61) and the Dune Protection Act (Ch. 63) are administered on Cameron County's Gulf shoreline by Cameron County, the City of South Padre Island and the City of Starbase. Brownsville issues no dune permits or beachfront construction certificates. Development here runs through Chapter 308 floodplain permits keyed to the Cameron County Flood Insurance Study and FIRM dated February 16, 2018, the Article 5.6 stormwater rules, and TWIA windstorm certification, since Cameron is a first-tier coastal county.
Building in a special flood hazard area without a floodplain development permit is a misdemeanor carrying a fine up to $500 per violation, plus all case costs, under section 308-148.
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Brownsville, TX
Brownsville does not regulate leaf blowers by name. The code carries no operating hours, horsepower cap or gas-blower ban. Blowers fall under the general dec...
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Brownsville caps sound at 63 dB(A) in residential zones from 8:00 a.m. to midnight and 50 dB(A) from midnight to 8:00 a.m. Amplification devices used on publ...
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Brownsville has no ordinance against feeding birds, feral cats, or wild animals. Complaints are handled through the animal nuisance rule in § 10-1062, the ra...
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Brownsville sets no limit on the number of hens and bans no roosters. The controlling rule is distance: a pen holding chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, peafow...
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Brownsville has no wildfire hazard severity zones and no wildland-urban interface code. Texas maps no such zones statewide. What applies instead is the 2018 ...
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Brownsville handles brush through its property-standards nuisance ordinance, not a defensible-space program. Grass or weeds over 18 inches is prima facie evi...
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