FENCE RULES – VICTORIA (CITY), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page applies to residential fence work within the corporate limits of the City of Victoria, Texas, in Victoria County.

Victoria does not have zoning, but its development code regulates residential fences. The City generally requires no fence permit, with masonry and electrical exceptions. The usual maximum is 8 feet, while opaque fencing ahead of the front building line is limited to 3 feet. Corner building lines, a required transition, and separate traffic-visibility provisions affect street-facing work. Material rules distinguish ordinary residential fences from required screening. Pools, public encroachments, drainage, floodplain work and animal enclosures add site-specific requirements. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Victoria answer
Permit or approval	Generally no fence permit. Masonry columns/fences and fences with electrical components require permits. Pools, public encroachments, covered floodplain work and certain development projects have separate approval requirements.
Typical fence height	8 feet generally; opaque fences or walls ahead of the front building line are limited to 3 feet. A 6-foot transition applies when screening fences cross the required front setback line. Corner lots and visibility requirements need separate attention.
Placement & property lines	Fences may occupy required yards or yard edges on interior residential lots. Keep the fence on private property. Building lines, public rights-of-way, easements, drainage and the City’s separate visibility provisions affect placement.
Common fence materials	Wood: addressed; opaque wood must be stained on both sides. Vinyl/PVC: expressly listed for certain required screening, but not separately listed in the ordinary residential provision. Chain-link: confirm the proposed residential design with Development Services because the Code’s material provisions differ by context.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by corner lots and driveway visibility, Downtown Business Historic District provisions, required subdivision screening, pools, public or private easements, floodplain and drainage conditions, animal enclosures, agricultural operations and private restrictions.
Official local resource	City of Victoria Development & Permitting Center

The table is a quick reference; the corresponding sections below provide additional fence-rule details. Before buying materials or starting construction, read the sections that apply to the property, review the linked official sources, and confirm site-specific questions with Development Services or the responsible office identified below.

GOVERNANCE

Victoria is a home-rule city. The City Council adopts its ordinances. Although Victoria does not have zoning, Chapter 21, the Unified Development Ordinance, establishes residential fence, screening, building, subdivision, encroachment and floodplain requirements. The September 11, 2026 consolidated UDO contains the current local residential fence provisions discussed here.

Development Services administers the UDO and building permits through the Development & Permitting Center. Planning Services administers applicable plats and site plans; the Planning Commission and City Council act on matters assigned to them. The Building Board of Adjustments and Appeals hears applicable building-code appeals and variance requests.

Public Works and the City Engineer handle engineering, public streets, drainage and traffic visibility. The appointed Floodplain Administrator administers floodplain development permits. Victoria County Animal Control Services administers the City’s animal-control provisions. These functions have different approval and enforcement responsibilities.

Victoria’s published residential adoption is the 2021 International Residential Code with local amendments. The local amendments delete IRC Section R105, and the adopted International Building Code’s Section 105 is also deleted. The City’s own permit provisions and fence guidance therefore supply the local permit answer. Pool installations also have separate local requirements.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ordinary residential fences: The City states that a permit is generally not required. Masonry columns, masonry fences and fences with electrical components require permits. Height, placement, visibility and material requirements continue to apply.

• Permit applications and plans: Development Services accepts applications from owners, authorized agents and eligible contractors. For permit-required fence or electrical work, submit the drawings, specifications and other information the Director requires to describe the work and determine compliance. The appropriate building or electrical approval depends on the proposed construction.

• Temporary construction fences: UDO Section 21-45 requires a special building permit for temporary fences and other listed temporary structures used in construction work. The temporary structure must be removed when the permit’s stated period expires.

• Pools, including above-ground pools: The City requires pool permits; its FAQ expressly includes above-ground pools. The UDO’s building-permit provisions cover constructing, installing, repairing or altering public or private swimming pools and related equipment. The pool enclosure must be completed before final inspection, and approval certificates for the pool and enclosure must be issued before filling.

• Covered development projects: Site-plan approval applies to the development categories listed in UDO Section 21-310, including new multifamily, townhouse and manufactured-home-park development and specified parking, loading or storage work. A required site plan must show relevant fences, walls, property lines, rights-of-way and easements. Ordinary single-family fence work follows the City’s fence guidance above.

• Public encroachments: A License to Encroach applies to the new or existing improvements, structures, facilities and encroachments described in UDO Sections 21-231–236 within public streets, roadways, sidewalks, rights-of-way or easements. Encroachment into a public street, roadway or sidewalk also requires City Council approval. City Manager approval is required for the license; Development Services takes final action, subject to appeal to Council. The City Engineer may require an engineering study. A license expires if the authorized encroachment is not installed within 24 months.

• Work occupying public rights-of-way: Chapter 20 separately requires an engineering permit before covered work involving excavation or occupancy of a public street, alley or sidewalk and partial or complete closure. Required traffic-control devices and safe pedestrian and vehicle access must be maintained during that work.

• Floodplain work: A Floodplain Development Permit is required for construction or other development within regulatory floodplains and other flooding areas identified by the City. Development includes excavation, grading and filling. The Floodplain Administrator determines the applicable plans, elevations, drainage information and engineering submissions for the proposed work.

• Contractors and owner work: An annual City builder’s license is required for the business of contracting to furnish labor and materials for permit-required building or pool activities. The UDO provides a licensing exemption for qualifying owners doing the specified work with their own hands at their owner-occupied family homestead; that exemption does not remove otherwise applicable permits or fees. Electrical work must also satisfy the applicable trade requirements.

• Qualifying residential construction contracts: Texas Property Code Chapter 53 includes fencing within its improvement provisions. For a covered residential construction contract, the original contractor must deliver the statutory disclosure before the owner signs. A lien against a homestead has additional conditions, including a written contract executed before labor or materials, both spouses’ signatures if the owner is married, and county-clerk filing. These are conditional contract and lien requirements.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Private boundaries and interior lots: UDO Section 21-209 allows fences and walls in a required yard or along a yard edge on an interior residential lot, subject to its height and safety conditions. The City directs that fences remain within private property boundaries. A building setback line, recorded easement and public right-of-way may be in different locations from the legal property line. An existing fence, curb, ditch or GIS line does not conclusively establish that boundary.

• Corner lots: Opaque fences and walls must not encroach on the front or exterior-side building lines under Section 21-209(a)(1). The same provision limits opaque fencing ahead of the front building line to 3 feet. Confirm the applicable building lines and street-side layout with Development Services before construction.

• Front-setback transitions: A screening fence crossing the minimum required front building setback line must provide a 6-foot transition between its 8-foot and 3-foot sections. The transition begins at the required setback line and extends toward the property front. For an existing subdivision without platted building setback lines, the ordinance uses 20 feet for this purpose.

• Reverse-frontage and unimproved-ROW lots: Section 21-209 contains an additional gate provision for reverse-frontage lots and lots abutting an unimproved right-of-way. Development Services should confirm the required gate arrangement for that lot before the fence is designed.

• Patio homes and zero-lot-line easements: The patio-home provisions establish a 9-foot drainage, maintenance-access and eave-overhang easement on the neighboring lot beside a zero lot line, in addition to the 5-foot frontage public utility easement. Section 21-139(d)(4) expressly allows fencing material to cross that particular easement. The recorded instrument and remaining access rights still govern the site.

• Public streets, sidewalks and gate openings: Chapter 20 addresses obstruction or enclosure of streets, alleys, sidewalks and other public places. Section 10-20(15) treats a gate or door opening upon a public street or sidewalk as a nuisance unless it is constructed or hung to be self-closing. Public encroachments remain subject to the separate approvals described above.

• Licensed public areas: When the City reasonably needs a licensed area for street, sewer, transportation or another municipal purpose, UDO Section 21-236 provides for at least 180 days’ written notice and removal of the encroachment by the licensee or successors. The license is revocable for the area the City needs.

• Drainage and watercourses: Keep drainage and maintenance access functional. Section 13-204 requires owners or lessees to keep watercourses reasonably free of debris, excessive vegetation and other obstacles that pollute, contaminate or significantly retard flow, and to maintain private structures within or beside the watercourse so they do not become a hazard. Texas Water Code Section 11.086 also restricts diversion or impoundment of natural surface water that damages another property by overflow, subject to its statutory qualifications.

• Excavation, concrete and construction runoff: The City prohibits harmful discharges of sediment, soil, construction debris and waste concrete into or beside its storm-drainage system or protected waters. Control runoff from post holes, footings, grading and stored materials. Larger construction projects and qualifying common plans have additional stormwater-plan requirements; smaller work remains subject to the local discharge prohibitions.

• Floodplain and floodway sites: UDO Article VII regulates construction and other development in mapped or otherwise identified flood-hazard areas. Under Section 21-286(a), floodway encroachments generally require the prescribed professional hydrologic and hydraulic demonstration of no rise and no impact, addressing 25-year and 100-year conditions. Section 21-286(c) separately allows the community to permit encroachments that increase base flood elevations after first completing all requirements of 44 CFR 65.12. The Floodplain Administrator determines how those provisions apply to the proposed fence, wall, grading or excavation.

• Pipeline easements: Health and Safety Code Sections 756.121–126 address covered construction, repair, replacement and maintenance on, across, over or under pipeline easements and rights-of-way. Operator notice and the applicable risk determination, protective work, payment or agreement conditions can be required. Written agreements and statutory exceptions affect coverage.

• Existing dividing or attached fences: Agriculture Code Section 143.121 restricts removal, except by mutual consent or the statutory process, of a dividing fence in which the person is a joint owner or a fence attached to one owned or controlled by another. Sections 143.122–123 provide six months’ written notice for the specified attached-fence withdrawal or disconnection situations, to the other owner or that owner’s agent, attorney or lessee. The notice rule applies to those ownership and attachment circumstances.

• Utility safety before post digging: Request a locate through Texas811 before digging. Utilities Code Chapter 251 generally covers powered or mechanized excavation, including augering, to 16 inches or more. Covered notice generally must be given at least 48 hours beforehand, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and no earlier than 14 days beforehand; the special Saturday-notification rule can affect the lawful start. Follow the ticket’s start instructions, check operator responses and site markings, resolve missing or conflicting information through the ticket process, protect marks and dig carefully. Private lines may need separate locating. The Railroad Commission’s pipeline rules can separately cover hand digging deeper than 16 inches and have their own response, careful-excavation and renewal requirements. Locating does not replace permits, easement rights or pipeline-construction notice.

• Overhead electric lines: Long posts, ladders and equipment must also be kept clear of overhead hazards. Health and Safety Code Chapter 752 restricts covered work within 6 feet of overhead lines carrying more than 600 volts unless its required safeguards are arranged. Covered temporary work requires at least 48 hours’ operator notice and the negotiated safety arrangements before work begins.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

• Residential height limits: Section 21-209 limits an opaque fence or wall ahead of the front building line to 3 feet; other residential walls and fences are limited to 8 feet. No fence may create a traffic hazard. Corner building lines and the 6-foot transition described above are additional conditions.

• UDO visibility triangles: Section 21-165 applies at driveway/street and street/street intersections. It specifies minimum legs of 15 feet measured from the intersecting curb line. Within the triangle, sight obstructions over 2 feet measured from the adjacent street’s top-of-curb are prohibited, expressly including fences and retaining walls.

• Separate traffic-code sight areas: The Victoria Code of Ordinances, Section 22-21 and Figure 1, also regulate intersection and driveway visibility. Its figure shows sight-distance legs of 230 feet and 125 feet along the public street. The observer point where the sight lines meet is shown 15 feet behind the public-street curb and 13 feet horizontally from the right-hand curb or edge of the entering street or driveway. The 13-foot dimension positions that observer point; it is not a general fence setback. The traffic section likewise prohibits sight obstructions over 2 feet above adjacent top-of-curb within its triangle. Confirm the required sight area under both the UDO and Chapter 22 for the particular driveway or intersection with Public Works before locating a fence.

• Visibility exceptions: The UDO and traffic section except qualifying permanent buildings and signs lawfully erected under the ordinances then in effect, governmental structures/poles/signs, and franchised utility poles. Trees may retain a central trunk if branches and other growth remain at least 7 feet above adjacent pavement.

• Visibility outside a triangle: Section 22-22 requires the property owner and occupant to remove a fence, growth or other object anywhere on the property that obstructs a motorist’s view while traveling on or entering a public street. Public Works administers the traffic provisions; after notice, correction is required immediately and no later than 10 days. The Code permits immediate correction of an immediate threat to human life.

• Downtown Business Historic District: UDO Section 21-147 states that uses in this district have no minimum required setbacks or UDO sight-visibility triangle. Chapter 22 separately contains traffic-visibility and obstruction-removal duties. Public Works and Development Services should confirm the applicable fence location and sight requirements for a downtown residential property.

• Subdivision arterial screening: For covered residential subdivision development along an arterial, Section 21-259 requires a 6-foot opaque screening fence along affected residential property lines, constructed by the developer at development. Covered subdivisions of 2 or more residential lots abutting an arterial prohibit direct arterial access. Reverse-frontage and specified terminal-lot layouts require the plat’s “Access Prohibited” notation and at least 20 additional feet of principal-building setback. Accessory structures may occupy that added setback but must respect the normal minimum rear setback. Columns, materials, offsets and landscaping may vary the screening design. The section assigns association maintenance conditions for the screening and landscaping outside it.

• Subdivision lots beside railroads or expressways: Section 21-259(i) requires 6-foot opaque screening along affected residential property lines, constructed by the developer at development or the owner at home construction. The subdivision provision separately establishes a building setback line at least 20 feet beyond the otherwise required setback; that is a building-line condition, while the fence is placed along the property boundary.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• Ordinary residential materials: Section 21-209(d) prohibits fences made of plywood, metal panels, mesh or corrugated steel sheets. The Code’s screening, opaque-fence and special-use provisions address additional designs in their stated contexts.

• Opaque fences and finishes: The opaque-fence definition describes a fence that restricts the passage of light and sight. It recognizes plant materials and similar methods approved by the Director of Development Services. It requires wood stained on both sides and split-face block finished on both sides rather than having one smooth and one finished side.

• Vinyl/PVC: Vinyl/PVC is expressly recognized for the required nonresidential, mixed-use and multifamily screening addressed in Section 21-208. The ordinary residential fence provision does not separately list vinyl/PVC. Development Services should confirm the proposed residential product and design.

• Chain-link and mesh: The opaque-fence definition mentions chain-link with slats, while the ordinary residential provision prohibits mesh. Required nonresidential/multifamily screening also has its own restriction on chain-link with weave or fabric. Confirm the acceptable treatment of the proposed residential chain-link design with Development Services.

• Required screening beside residential property: Where Section 21-207 requires a nonresidential or multifamily property to screen an adjoining residential use, that nonresidential or multifamily owner is responsible for construction and maintenance. The rule covers multifamily or nonresidential uses siding or backing onto existing or proposed single-family, duplex or triplex uses, and nonresidential uses siding or backing onto multifamily uses. It also addresses replacement of 50 percent or more of required existing screening. “Proposed” residential use includes recorded subdivisions designated residential on the plat; recorded subdivisions without a use designation that are developed primarily residentially; and property with preliminary-plat/construction-plan approvals or commenced residential-development improvements. A certificate of approval is required before occupancy for the affected use.

• Required nonresidential, mixed-use and multifamily screening construction: Section 21-208 calls for Director-approved conventional opaque materials. Listed acceptable examples include vinyl/PVC, solid treated-pine, cedar or redwood fencing, and masonry walls. Listed unacceptable materials include plywood, metal panels, corrugated steel sheets, and chain-link with weave or fabric. Required walls must be equally finished on both sides, and necessary openings must have gates of equal height and screening characteristics. The section prohibits opaque fencing between the front building face and ROW. Screening behind the required front setback is 6 feet; forward screening is limited to 3 feet, with a 6-foot transition and the section’s 20-foot unplatted-setback provision.

• Required-screening alternatives, maintenance and waivers: For the nonrequired nonresidential fences addressed by Section 21-208, approved landscaping or vines may provide equivalent screening if performance is achieved within 2 years. Required screening must remain in good condition: no more than 1 foot out of vertical alignment at the top, and damaged or missing parts totaling 20 square feet or more must be repaired or replaced within 30 days after notice. A total or height-only waiver requires the affected site owner and all affected adjoining residential owners to join the written request; no length-only partial waiver is allowed. The prescribed forms must be signed, notarized and approved by Development Services. A change of the nonresidential land use voids its waiver.

• Barbed wire: Section 21-210 generally prohibits barbed wire, with an exception for properties having an agricultural-use exemption of at least 5 acres. A separate nonresidential exception allows up to 3 strands atop a security fence at least 6 feet high, behind the front setback and upright or projecting over the owner’s property. That nonresidential exception has its own use and location limits.

• Private-home pool enclosures: Victoria’s swimming-pool provisions adopt the 1982 Standard Swimming Pool Code with local amendments. They define covered constructed or prefabricated pools as over 18 inches deep. Local amended Section 315 requires complete enclosure by an approved wall, fence or other substantial structure at least 4 feet high. For a pool no more than 30 inches deep and 65 cubic feet in capacity, the Director may approve a substantial cover with childproof locks instead. Complete the enclosure before final inspection and obtain pool and enclosure approval before filling. Confirm all applicable pool and enclosure requirements, including gate, opening, access and construction details, with Development Services. Texas’s municipal pool-code framework also applies; association and multiunit/public pools have separate statutory and public-pool requirements.

• Dogs: Section 4-30 requires dogs to be secured by a leash or lead, physically confined within the owner’s property limits, or confined in a motor vehicle, with the stated law-enforcement-canine exception. Animal enclosures must remain sanitary. A qualifying livestock-protection dog used on an agricultural operation has a separate state-law restraint protection while performing that function on property controlled by the owner.

• Dangerous-dog enclosures: A legally classified dangerous dog requires the secure enclosure defined by Section 4-1 and specified in Section 4-42: locked, resistant to public/child entry and dog escape, clearly marked, chew-resistant, with a bottom preventing digging in or out, an enclosed roof, and a double air-lock entry with both doors locked in sequence. It must provide room for normal movement and stretching, cannot be in a building inhabited by a person, and requires Animal Control inspection and approval at least annually. Required bilingual dangerous-dog warning signs use letters at least 1 inch high on signs at least 8 by 12 inches and no larger than 18 by 24 inches; similar signs go on all kennel or pen sides. Outside the enclosure, the dangerous dog requires a muzzle and a hand-held leash no longer than 6 feet.

• Livestock pens: Section 4-51 requires the covered livestock enclosure to be at least 100 feet from another person’s dwelling and provide at least one-half acre of usable grazing area for each 2 head. Its supervised market-lamb exception permits up to 2 animals at least 25 feet, or up to 4 animals at least 50 feet, from another person’s dwelling. Sanitary conditions and the educational-program requirements apply.

• Swine in qualifying educational programs: Section 4-50 generally prohibits swine, with specified exhibition, school and supervised-program exceptions. For the home educational-program exception, the tract must be at least 1 acre with no more than 5 swine. The pen must be at least 15 feet wide and provide 625 square feet per swine weighing 50 pounds or more, with at least 100 square feet of roof per swine, at least 150 feet from another person’s dwelling. The section’s other husbandry and program conditions also apply.

• Fowl runs and screening: Section 4-52 requires a fenced run providing at least 10 square feet per bird and a weather-protective coop providing at least 3 square feet per bird, both strong enough to prevent escape. Each must be at least 25 feet from another inhabited dwelling and 5 feet from a property line, behind a 6-foot opaque screen or otherwise not visible from a public street. Sanitation and noise controls apply. The section provides a later-development defense and a supervised agricultural-education exception with its required participant reporting.

• Agricultural operations: Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 251 and constitutional agricultural protections can limit local requirements for qualifying operations. Within-city restrictions are subject to the statutory evidence, report, resolution and other conditions. An agricultural exemption or large residential lot alone does not settle those statutory questions; Development Services and qualified legal guidance can address the particular operation.

• Fence-condition safety: Local Government Code Section 214.002 authorizes municipal repair or removal orders for a fence found likely to endanger people or property. Pool and animal enclosures must also continue to serve their required safety and containment functions.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

Recorded subdivision restrictions, HOA or architectural requirements, private access and utility easements, and agreements about a shared fence can impose separate conditions on design, location, maintenance and cost allocation. Public approval does not decide ownership or the parties’ contractual obligations. These private requirements remain subject to Texas statutory limits.

• HOA security fencing and gates: Texas Property Code Section 202.023 limits restrictive covenants preventing security measures, including perimeter fences, with express exceptions. Associations may regulate fence type, prohibit obstruction of license areas, public/community sidewalks and drainage areas/easements, and require driveway gates at least 10 feet back from ROW where a driveway meets a laned roadway. A restrictive covenant may prohibit new fencing in front of the dwelling’s front-most building line. These are retained HOA powers under the statute.

• Existing fences and enhanced-security cases: Owners may maintain perimeter or front-building-line fencing installed or constructed before September 1, 2025, notwithstanding Section 202.023(c). The front-building-line prohibition also has exceptions for owners whose residential addresses are exempt from disclosure or who supply law-enforcement documentation of a need for enhanced security. Section 202.023 excludes specified condominiums and Chapter 215 master mixed-use associations.

• HOA pool-safety enclosure protections: Section 202.022 protects its defined conforming nonclimbable enclosure made of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames and no more than 6 feet high. An association may regulate appearance and colors within the statute but cannot prohibit the specified black transparent-mesh form. The enclosure must satisfy applicable public safety requirements.

• Architectural denials: For an association covered by Section 209.00505—more than 40 lots, outside the specified development/declarant-control periods—a written denial must state its basis, any changes needed for approval, and the owner’s right to request a board hearing on or before the 30th day after the notice was mailed. The board must hold the hearing within 30 days after receiving the request and give at least 10 days’ notice; either party may request a postponement of up to 10 days, with further postponements by agreement. The board may affirm, modify or reverse the decision consistently with the subdivision declaration.

• An owner’s qualifying adjacent lot: Section 209.015 protects residential uses including fencing on an owner’s qualifying adjacent lot in a covered subdivision. Prior association/architectural approval remains required, with reasonable size, location, shielding and appearance criteria. Its definition covers same-street contiguous lots, specified side/back adjacency to a corner lot, and other back adjacency when the dedicatory instrument permits. On transfer of the home lot, the owner must transfer the adjacent lot with it under the same conditions or restore the adjacent lot as the statute requires. Separate sale of the adjacent lot has additional conditions.

• Private agreements and shared boundaries: Before attaching to, replacing or removing a shared fence, establish the relevant ownership, attachment rights, cost and maintenance agreements. The statutory dividing/attached-fence removal duties are described in Fence Placement Rules. A private agreement does not eliminate public visibility, pool, drainage or encroachment requirements.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

Fence issues are typically reviewed during permit or approval review when required, and through complaint-based code enforcement. Examples include:

• Building and development review: Masonry and electrical permit work, temporary construction fences, pool enclosures, covered site plans and required screening.

• Street visibility and access: Front and corner building lines, transitions, the separate UDO and traffic-code sight areas, obstructions to motorists’ views, public encroachments and gate openings.

• Site conditions: Floodplain or floodway development, drainage and watercourse obstructions, construction runoff, easement access, and pipeline construction or utility-excavation obligations.

• Materials, maintenance and containment: Prohibited residential materials, required-screening condition, pool enclosure safety, and the applicable pet, dangerous-dog, livestock or fowl enclosure rules.

• Private and agricultural matters: HOA and architectural review remains separate from public enforcement. Fence ownership and agreements, statutory attached-fence duties, and qualifying agricultural protections have their own factual and legal conditions.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within the City of Victoria, Texas. Updated November 2026.

In addition to local fence rules, certain Texas laws apply statewide. See Statewide Fence Laws in Texas.

It is not legal advice and does not replace official statutes, ordinances, orders, permits, certificates, development approvals, applicable building-code requirements, surveys, recorded documents or professional guidance. Rules and interpretations may change, and application may vary with municipal or unincorporated location, applicable extraterritorial authority, zoning or special-area status, code adoption and amendments, site conditions, subdivision or plat conditions, easements, rights-of-way, drainage and floodplain requirements, historic or design districts, pool use, agricultural operations and stock laws, fence ownership or attachment, coastal or public-access conditions, utility and pipeline excavation requirements, and private restrictions subject to Texas law. Before purchasing materials or beginning construction, confirm current requirements and site-specific limitations with City of Victoria Development Services and the responsible office for each applicable issue, and review applicable private agreements. If this page conflicts with controlling law, adopted regulations or official requirements, the controlling authorities govern. For legal advice or legal interpretation, consult a licensed attorney.