Grand Prairie, TX Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Grand Prairie's curb-number painting rule, codified at Sec. 29-82 inside Article V (General Nuisances) of Chapter 29, targets the door-to-door painters who go street by street offering to paint reflective house numbers on curbs for a fee. Before touching a curb, the person or partnership doing the work must first get the homeowner's or property owner's approval, not simply show up and paint. That approval has to cover two specific things: where on the curb the numbers go, and what numbers get painted there. The ordinance also fixes the exact specification: the numbers must be four inches high by two and one-half inches wide, painted in white reflective paint on a dark background, and centered on that background.

Payment terms are locked in too: the ordinance bars collecting for the work until after the job is finished, closing off the common practice of collecting up front and never returning to paint the numbers or doing shoddy work. Because Sec. 29-82 sits within Article V's general nuisance framework, a violation is enforced the same way as any other Article V offense: under Sec. 29-109, the code compliance division can cite the painter, and a conviction is fined under Sec. 1-8 of the Code of Ordinances, with each day a violation continues counted as a separate offense. Homeowners who never gave approval, or who are billed before the work is done, can report a violation to code compliance for citation.