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Chapter 10 also addresses protection of the beach dune system through the Dune
Protection Permit. The City has been granted the authority to issue Dune Protection
Permits in Kleberg County but Nueces County has not granted Dune Protection Permit
authority to the City within Nueces County. However, Chapter 10 is constructed to
automatically accommodate Dune Protection Permit authority should Nueces County
authorize the City of Corpus Christi to issue Dune Protection Permits in Nueces County.
The Dune Protection Permit area is an area that is 1,000 feet landward of mean high
tide, except for the area adjacent to the North Padre Island sea wall. Adjacent to the
seawall, the Dune Permit area is between mean high tide and the “toe” of the seawall.
A Dune Protection Permit is not required for either Mustang Island State Park or the
Padre Island National Seashore.
In order to develop the Erosion Response Plan, the Texas General Land Office (GLO),
Nueces County and City Staff compiled a work plan and subsequently obtained a GLO
grant. The City provided an in-kind match consisting of mapping, research, formulating
the ERP and other tasks necessary for developing the ERP.
The primary reason for completing an Erosion Response Plan (ERP) is to reduce future
storm damage and to protect public access to the Gulf Beach for future generations.
An important secondary reason for completing a local ERP is so that the City and
County will continue to be eligible for Texas General Land Office CEPRA grants. A
criterion for the award of future grants is that the city must have an Erosion Response
Plan approved by the Texas General Land Office. Texas Administrative Code 15.41
contains a two stage evaluation process for Coastal Erosion Studies and Projects with
the second stage establishing whether a “…local government has implemented an
Erosion Response Plan for reducing public expenditures due to erosion and storm
damage losses.”
The essential elements that are included in this Erosion Response Plan (ERP), per the
work plan developed by the GLO and the City, include the following:
A construction setback line landward of the Line of Vegetation (LOV);
Criteria for establishing the setback line;
Criteria for construction within the setback area;
Allowances for exemptions to the setback criteria for existing structures or where
there is no practicable alternative;
Conditions for construction of exempt structures;
An inventory of all existing and proposed public beach access amenities and access
ways;
Procedures for preserving and enhancing the public’s right of access to and use of
the public beach after a storm event;
Post storm damage assessment and requirements for rehabilitation;
Revised Draft Nueces County / Corpus Christi Erosion Response Plan
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