Zoning Outside City Limits: What Texas Landowners Face
Texas counties cannot zone, and most land buyers stop reading there. That is the mistake. HB 24 rewrote the protest rules in September 2025, corridor overlays can no longer be protested at all, and the ETJ exit is still moving through federal court. Here is what zoning outside city limits actually means for a tract in a growth corridor.
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