Concrete Pads in Creedmoor, Texas

Creedmoor's zoning ordinance defines an accessory structure as one whose use is incidental to the main building on the same lot, such as a woodshed, toolshed or greenhouse, and the City's 2025 fee schedule requires an application and permit for every accessory structure before it is built or installed; the structure then has to pass its inspections before the City issues a certificate of completion. The residential permit packet, revised December 2, 2025, groups sheds, ADUs, gyms and auxiliary office space as accessory structures, wants zoning approved before the code review, and asks for a foundation plan: a slab or pier-and-beam with material specifications, dimensions and a reinforcement schedule, or a tie-down anchorage system instead.

Metal buildings and heavy equipment

A pre-engineered metal building needs engineered plans. Under the City's July 2025 building permit schedule, a licensed engineer has to seal the foundation plans for every occupied structure and for any foundation that will hold heavy machinery or equipment.

Sprinklers in larger outbuildings

The zoning ordinance requires any structure other than a complying single-family home that is larger than 300 square feet to have a working water sprinkler system meeting the fire department's or district's requirements. That is worth knowing before the size of a shop, and of the slab under it, is settled.

Vapor retarders: inside or out

For a slab inside a building, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association recommends putting a vapor retarder no thinner than 10 mils under it; under an open exterior slab on grade, such as an RV pad, it says one generally isn't needed. The International Residential Code leaves garages and other unheated accessory buildings out of its vapor retarder requirement, and it wants slab-on-ground reinforcement kept in position, from mid-depth up to the top third, for the whole pour.

Permit applications, fees and inspection requests go through the City's online portal, run by PSD Citywide, and paper applications are still taken at the City office. The fee schedule the City adopted on November 20, 2025 (Ordinance No. 251120-D) replaces any earlier fee it conflicts with. For homes it prices an "other non-habitable structure" permit at $0.25 per square foot, trades extra, while the older July 2025 schedule priced garages, barns, patios, storage buildings and carports on valuation. Neither one says which line covers a bare slab with nothing built on it, so put that question to the City before the pour.

Contractor registration and plan review

Builders and general contractors pay the City a $500.00 annual registration fee per company. Commercial plans are reviewed and inspected for the City by Bureau Veritas, whose inspection request form lists pier, grade beam and slab inspections.

Floodplain sites

Where a FEMA floodplain touches a site, the residential plans have to show the base flood elevation and set each structure's finished floor 2 feet above it.

About 24% of Creedmoor's housing units are mobile homes in the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 estimates (48 of 202, a survey figure with a wide margin). The zoning ordinance requires manufactured and industrialized homes to rest on a permanent concrete foundation that a licensed engineer certifies for the home's load on that site, and it prohibits ground anchors for any housing in the city. The scanned copy carries handwritten edits on those lines, and the 2025 permit packet asks for anchorage and foundation plans and details by a state-licensed structural engineer, so confirm the current rule with the City.

The same section calls for a stoop, porch, patio or deck at each entrance, with the floor no more than 24 inches above the average ground level at the foundation. Installing or removing a single manufactured home costs $500.00 in permit fees, trade permits not included, and a 1,620-square-foot mobile home foundation averages $29,160 in 2026 Austin-area price tables.