Committee launches review to modernize Laredo over-dimensional permit process
Aug 19, 2026
Bridge staff and industry representatives agreed to revisit a 1998 over-dimensional permit ordinance (last amended 2011), focusing on removing or clarifying a legacy photograph requirement and improving the online application and change process.
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Committee members directed staff to convene engineering, traffic, and industry stakeholders to revise the city's over-dimensional permit ordinance, which was adopted in 1998 and last amended in 2011. Staff said the current online permit system cannot accommodate edits and that a historical photograph requirement may be obsolete.
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