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What is Celina's ETJ, and does zoning apply there?

Celina, as one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, holds a large extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) reaching into unincorporated Collin and Denton county land beyond the city limits. Texas counties do not have zoning authority, so property in the ETJ or otherwise unincorporated has no municipal zoning at all; the Zoning Ordinance applies only within incorporated Celina city limits (Sec. 14.01.103(a)). Land newly annexed into the city and not yet assigned a specific district is automatically zoned AG, Agricultural, until rezoned (Sec. 14.02.405(a)). This pack does not cover ETJ or unincorporated county land; confirm whether a specific parcel has been annexed with Development Services at 972-382-2682 or the city's public GIS (celina-public-gis-celinatx.hub.arcgis.com).

Sources

Full text: Celina ordinance on City-hosted PDF (Development Services document center); the Code of Ordinances is also on eCode360 (https://ecode360.com/CE6272) but the Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 14) working copy the city links from its Codes & Ordinances page is this standalone PDF, most recently saved 2026-06-17 per its file metadata. eCode360 states it includes legislation through Ord. No. 2026-028 (adopted April 14, 2026), somewhat newer currency evidence than the PDF; the two platforms agree on Articles 14.01-14.04 (districts, uses, site development standards) but eCode360 carries an additional Article 14.05 (state law compliance, adopted 2019) absent from the PDF, and shows the PDF's OT and OT-R base-district sections as reserved with no text, deferring fully to the Downtown Code for those two districts. Applies to district: AG.

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