Shenandoah, TX Fire Regulations: Smoke Detectors (2026)

Grogan's Forest is PDD 2 of Shenandoah's thirteen planned development districts, and its development criteria for each numbered section, adopted under Ordinance No. O-02-015 and its amendments, sets construction standards on top of whatever the city's general building code otherwise requires. 01, covering the Residential-Patio-SFD (Medium-Low) product built in Section 5 of Grogan's Forest, requires every home to be designed to the current International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings as adopted and amended by the City of Shenandoah Building Code at Sections 14-31 through 14-35 and 14-71 through 14-74, and to meet the energy-efficiency provisions of Chapter 11 of the 2000 International Residential Code.

The same section's structured-wiring addendum for the subdivision then adds, in its own sentence, that all smoke alarms must be listed and installed under the 2000 International Residential Building Code and the household fire warning equipment provisions of NFPA 72. 03, governing the Medium and Medium-High product built in Grogan's Forest Sections 6 and 7, repeat the identical smoke-alarm sentence for those later phases, so the requirement runs across the whole PDD 2 build-out, not just the first section. The requirement layers onto, rather than replaces, the city's own building-permit and inspection process: a third-party qualified inspector, licensed as an architect, registered structural engineer or ICBO/SBCCI-certified building inspector, must sign off at foundation, framing and final inspection before a certificate of occupancy issues.