Business, Commerce & Transportation
30. Municipal Permitting
We call on the Texas Legislature to continue to streamline the building permitting process to ease burdens and costs on developers and consumers. We encourage the Legislature to monitor implementation of existing legislation that protects property development rights and to close loopholes that cities are using to circumvent these laws. We oppose retroactive rulemaking and changing the rules on developments that have already been issued permits. Unused landfill permits issued by the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality shall automatically expire after 10 years.
