El Paso, TX Filming & Production: Street Closures (2026)

040(B)(9)(b) requires the permit applicant to submit a traffic control plan showing the placement of all barricades, signs, and devices used to redirect traffic around the closure. The plan must provide for closing the street, including affected intersections and traffic rerouting, using manned barricades, signage, and peace officers with jurisdiction in the city, and must designate adequate parking areas for filming crews and equipment. It must conform to the current Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, be drawn on a map, and be submitted to the traffic engineer within the chapter's deadlines.

Critically, the plan must keep an unobstructed width of not less than twenty feet and a vertical clearance of not less than thirteen feet six inches for emergency vehicle access on every temporarily closed street, and it must identify fire hydrant locations and keep every structure at least fifteen feet away from any hydrant. The permittee who submits the plan takes on responsibility for obtaining and placing the barricades and signs, paying those costs, covering any required city police traffic-control assistance, removing everything and reopening the street immediately after wrap, paying parking meter fees for the closure period, and ensuring abutting property owners are never denied access.

The traffic engineer must deny a location outright if the submitted traffic control plan does not adequately address security and traffic control, though the engineer may instead approve it with modifications that fix the deficiency.