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El Campo adopts flood-damage rules into Unified Development Code
Summary
The El Campo City Council adopted Ordinance 2026-01 to move flood-damage-prevention regulations into the Unified Development Code, maintaining a one-foot-above-base-flood-elevation standard and adding new prohibitions for critical facilities and special flood-hazard areas to satisfy state grant requirements.
The El Campo City Council voted to adopt Ordinance 2026-01, moving the city’s flood-damage-prevention regulations from Chapter 3 of the building code into Article 10.19 of the Unified Development Code.
City staff told the council the change is intended to satisfy a state grant condition requiring adoption of zoning-related development standards and to consolidate development rules in the UDC. A staff presenter said some minor edits are shown in green in the council packet and that the text will be copied into a forthcoming full UDC revision later in the year.
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