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Planning staff report: nearly 1,900 permits, $134 million in valuations and code enforcement activity
Summary
Planning and Code Enforcement staff told commissioners they issued about 1,900 permits and performed roughly 6,700 inspections between April 2024 and April 2025, collected approximately $467,000 in permit fees and reported potential demolition of up to 18 structures (likely fewer after compliance). Staff also previewed a rewritten junk-vehicle ordinance shifting responsibilities between police and code enforcement.
WESLACO, Texas — Planning and Code Enforcement staff briefed city commissioners in a May 21 workshop on permitting, inspections and enforcement activity for the April 2024–April 2025 period and described planned ordinance changes intended to strengthen enforcement.
A planning presenter introduced as Mr. Peraza said the department issued about 1,900 permits and performed approximately 6,700 inspections over the last year, collected permit fees of roughly $467,000 and recorded permit valuations totaling about $134,300,000. He highlighted several recently completed commercial projects, including new restaurant and gas-station developments, and a public-library project that is progressing without major issues.
On enforcement, Peraza said staff are investigating about 18 properties for potential demolition but expect fewer actual demolitions because historically about half of owners come into compliance after notice; the presenter characterized the 18 cases as a screening estimate rather than a firm count. Staff also discussed food-service and mobile-vendor inspections, abandoned vehicles and illegal dumping; Peraza said two health inspectors cover food-service work and one code-enforcement officer handles most citywide enforcement.
Peraza previewed a rewrite of the city’s ordinance addressing junk vehicles: the proposal would make police responsible for action when junk vehicles are in the right of way, while code enforcement would take charge of vehicles on private property; staff said the change is intended to give the city more enforcement authority. The rewritten ordinance had not yet been presented to the commission for approval.
Peraza also described the Clean Street project: the city scaled back from two citywide clean sweeps to one citywide event plus targeted neighborhood cleanups to improve volunteer turnout; he said volunteer numbers have fallen from roughly 300 a decade ago to about 100 currently and that the next neighborhood cleanups are planned for July.
No ordinance was adopted at the workshop; staff said the rewritten junk-vehicle ordinance and code enforcement proposals will be presented for action in the future.
