Taylor, TX Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

Section 2-83 of the Taylor Code of Ordinances, adopted by Ordinance No. 98-28 in December 1998, sets out the powers and duties of the Main Street Advisory Board, an 11-member body appointed by the city council with five additional non-voting ex officio seats held by the city manager, main street manager, the Central Texas RC&D director, the chamber of commerce executive director, and the economic development corporation director. Subsection (4) gives the board a direct design-review role: it reviews, advises, and makes recommendations to the city building inspection department on any proposed alteration to the exterior of a building inside the main street project district, though final action rests with the building inspection department rather than the board itself.

Subsection (5) sets the board's broader downtown mission around four pillars, organization, design, unified promotion, and economic restructuring, and its design pillar specifically directs the board to encourage appropriate, high-quality design in the maintenance, renovation and reuse of downtown buildings. Where a downtown building also carries historic overlay zoning under the 2024 Land Development Code, that separate layer requires its own HPC-approved Certificate of Appropriateness before exterior work can proceed, and the Land Development Code's definitions chapter separately references the city-adopted Design Guidelines for Historic Taylor, Texas as the document the Historic Preservation Commission uses to judge that appropriateness.