Metal building contractors in Medina County, Texas

Outside the cities, the county's list does not include one. A building permit for a commercial or accessory structure is not among the five numbered items, and no page checked on the county site names a building department, a code edition, a plan review or a certificate of occupancy (Medina County, checked 2026-09-13). Confirm before relying on it: 1100 16th Street, Hondo, 830-741-6000.

The Fire Marshal answer points the same way. That role is combined with Emergency Management at 925 Avenue Y, Hondo, and the permit content published there covers outdoor burning: no fire code edition, no plan review, no county building permit.

Whole chapter checked; it gives counties no such power. Checked at Texas Legislature Online, Local Government Code Chapter 233, county regulation of housing and other structures, 2026-09-13.

The $50,000 line is the big one. Any building job with $50,000 or more in total estimated construction cost must be registered with TDLR, with the construction documents going to a registered accessibility specialist for review; under that, a project still complies with the Texas Accessibility Standards without registering. Stormwater runs on acreage, not county lines: one acre or more of disturbance needs coverage under the TCEQ construction general permit, five acres or more a Notice of Intent first. The full sequence is in the San Antonio and Bexar County permit sheet.

Checked at Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Architectural Barriers frequently asked questions, 2026-09-13.

Checked at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, construction stormwater general permit TXR150000, 2026-09-13.

Medina is one of the two counties on this site the aquifer program names. TCEQ requires an approved Edwards Aquifer protection plan before construction begins on the recharge, transition or contributing zone, and in the San Antonio region the program pages name Bexar, Medina, Comal, Uvalde and Kinney counties. Only portions are regulated, so TCEQ points to its map viewer for a specific site.

The approval comes before the dozer: TCEQ regulates clearing and excavation alongside buildings. The zones, the review clock and the acreage fees are in the Edwards Aquifer sheet; the other named county here is Bexar County, which does run a county building permit.

Checked at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Edwards Aquifer Protection Program, 2026-09-13.

Checked at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Edwards Aquifer Protection Program, what plans you might need, 2026-09-13.

It changes halfway down the county. The northern hills are shallow soil over fractured limestone: Tarrant soils carry about 16 inches of cobbly clay over bedrock, with coarse fragments covering 35 to 90 percent of the surface. South of the hills it is Rio Grande Plain, whose largest association, about 30 percent of the county, is deep loamy and clayey calcareous soil on broad, smooth uplands (USDA Soil Conservation Service, Soil Survey of Medina County, Texas, 1977, checked 2026-09-13).

Two sites 20 miles apart here can need two different foundations, so the soil report comes before the slab drawing, and Hondo asks for a sealed engineered foundation plan with a geotechnical survey or soil test. What the erector needs from the concrete is in the slab and foundation sheet.

Two of them are one county office. Environmental Health in Hondo takes the floodplain development permit, required for any man-made change to real estate in the floodplain, filling, grading and paving included, and the septic permit, required for every on-site sewage system. The driveway is a third county answer, not a central office: the county permits driveways and utilities through the individual Precinct Commissioner (Medina County, checked 2026-09-13).

The state adds a designer rule on the aquifer: a professional engineer or a professional sanitarian seals the septic planning materials for all new construction on the recharge zone. A lot with no public or community water means a registered well through the Medina County Ground Water Conservation District, and a well into or through the Edwards Aquifer takes a $25 permit application to the Edwards Aquifer Authority first. Medina Electric Cooperative charges a non-refundable $100 engineering fee before the site visit and takes four to six weeks once a job goes to construction. The county list itself is five items, each with its own office (Medina County permit list and the county Environmental Health fee schedule, checked 2026-09-13):

• 911 addressing, from the county 911 addressing department, 830-741-8997.

• Water well, registered through the Medina County Ground Water Conservation District, 830-741-3162.

• Floodplain development, from Environmental Health in Hondo, 830-741-6195, at $45.00.

• Septic, from that same Environmental Health office, at $200.00 for a conventional system and $400.00 for an aerobic one.

• Driveway and utility, from the Precinct Commissioner the property sits in: Precinct 1 on 830-741-6016, Precinct 2 on 830-931-4000, Precinct 3 on 830-741-6006, Precinct 4 on 830-665-8015.

Checked at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality publication RG-472, on-site sewage facility rules compilation, 2026-09-13.

Checked at Edwards Aquifer Authority, well closure procedures and construction, 2026-09-13.

Checked at Medina Electric Cooperative, start or stop service, 2026-09-13.

City limits hand the permit to the city, and four towns here do (city pages, checked 2026-09-13, linked under the permit stack below).

• Hondo. The Non-Residential Permit Checklist asks for three copies of the construction and site plans, a sealed engineered foundation plan with a geotechnical survey or soil test, sealed engineered mechanical, electrical and plumbing plans above 5,000 square feet, and TDLR registration over $50,000.00, on the 2015 International Building Code. City Hall, 830-426-3378. The carport setback, the permit fee table and the Knippa clay under most of the city are on the Hondo metal building sheet.

• Castroville requires a permit for any accessory structure over 200 square feet, naming carports, garages, sheds and storage buildings, and its exclusions pertain to residential permits only, so commercial work gets no exemption. Community Development, 830-931-4090. The Highway 90 rule on metal walls, the historic district review and the ground inside the city are on the Castroville metal building sheet.

• Devine approves plans and collects all fees before issuing a permit, on the 2021 International codes effective March 1, 2024, and building without one doubles the fees. Code Compliance, 830-663-2804.

• Lytle runs a Fire Marshal plan review and inspection on every commercial application before a certificate of occupancy, 830-709-3692.

• Natalia is incorporated too, and no permit page was read for it.

Ask first who holds the Edwards Aquifer approval where the site sits on a regulated zone, because Medina is one of the two counties on this site the TCEQ program names and nothing starts on the ground until that plan is approved. Then ask who seals the foundation plan with the geotechnical survey or soil test Hondo asks for by name (city pages, checked 2026-09-13), who prepares the septic planning materials, and what the bid assumes about the clocks.

Each request lands with one independent metal building contractor, who picks which jobs to take on and prices those, and Texas issues no builder license to check first, and the San Antonio and Bexar County permit sheet carries that statewide picture. Start at commercial steel buildings or metal shop buildings, the build order is in the start-to-finish San Antonio guide, and the sheet south is Frio County.

Checked at Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Residential Construction Commission; TDLR regulated industries list, 2026-09-13.

Checked at Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Edwards Aquifer Protection Program, 2026-09-13.