Deck permit checklist — Garland, Texas
Assembled from Garland’s own published permit rules. Every line below is quoted from a city document and linked to it. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or inferred from another jurisdiction.
Do you need a permit?
Garland requires a permit for a deck.
Garland requires a building permit for any patio or porch cover, whether it is attached to the house or free-standing in the yard, with no published square-footage exemption. Covers may not encroach into a required front, rear or street-side setback (typically 20 feet from the property line but up to 35 feet depending on zoning), and they must be built of conventional building materials.
What Garland publishes for this permit
- 1 process step from application to final
- 1 published fee line from the city's fee schedule
- Checked against Garland's documents on September 15, 2026
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Sources
- deck — permit rules ↗verified September 2026
Other permits Garland publishes rules for
Listed because the city publishes a separate rule for each type — not because this project necessarily triggers one. Whether it does depends on your scope of work.
- Fence permit checklist
- Shed permit checklist
- Water heater permit checklist
- Re-roof permit checklist
- Retaining wall permit checklist
- Electrical work permit checklist
- General building work permit checklist
BuildSpec is a reference, not the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm requirements with Garland before you build.