Cedar Park does not require a permit for a non-structural re-roof — one of the few Texas cities its size that doesn't. What it does require is that your contractor be registered with the city, which is where out-of-town storm crews come unstuck.
Cedar Park grew up all at once. The city had 5,261 people at the 1990 Census and 26,049 by 2000 — a 395% decade. Another 87.9% followed by 2010, and 58.6% more by 2020, to 77,595. Everything built in that run went on with the same handful of roofing systems in the same few years, which is why the city's roofs are now aging in a block rather than a trickle.
The numbers are unambiguous. Cedar Park's median home was built in 2005. 65.9% of the housing stock — 19,359 of 29,364 units — dates from 2000 or later, and another 28.3% from the 1980s and 1990s. Fewer than six homes in a hundred predate 1980. The single biggest cohort, 10,384 homes built between 2000 and 2009, is sitting at sixteen to twenty-five years old: the exact stretch where an asphalt roof stops being a maintenance item and starts being a replacement.
Hail decides which ones go first. NOAA's Storm Events database holds 78 severe hail reports within eight miles of Cedar Park since 2010. On 28 May 2025 a storm put two-inch hail inside the city limits — NOAA's own narrative records nickel to chicken-egg size falling for twenty minutes — after golf-ball stones in April 2021 and June 2023. The 24 September 2023 supercell that measured 3.75 inches in Round Rock, eight miles east, was part of a complex NOAA assesses at $1.3 billion in hail damage across three states.
Cedar Park's rules are their own thing. The city adopted the 2021 IRC and 2021 IBC effective 1 June 2022 and writes its own design criteria into Table R301.2 rather than taking the state defaults: 115 mph, 5 psf ground snow load, Seismic Design Category A, no ice barrier underlayment, and the windborne-debris field left blank. It does not require a permit for a non-structural re-roof, which surprises most people. It does require every contractor to register with the city. And the commercial corridor along South Lakeline and Lakeline Mall Drive straddles a jurisdiction line that catches out roofers who have never worked it.
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View Free Roof Inspection →The city's own list of work that does not require a permit includes roof covering, non-structural, right alongside painting, carpet and fencing. Replace the decking or touch the framing and that changes — that is construction, and it needs one. We tell you which side of that line your roof falls on, and we call 512-401-5100 to confirm rather than guess.
Lakeline Mall across multiple phases, including the RTU replacement in Carlisle 135 FleeceBACK TPO and the AMC theatre roof. Bank OZK at 1861 South Lakeline. Cedar Ridge memory care at 2100 South Lakeline. Chimney and flashing work at Red Stone Ranch, 1600 South Lakeline. Repairs at Cypress Bend Shopping Center on Cypress Creek Road for Mr. Boba and Nunan’s Martial Arts. Solar attachment sealing at the Ismaili Jamatkhana on South Lakeline. Hundreds of photographs per job, documented as we go.
11200 Lakeline Mall Drive carries a Cedar Park 78613 mailing address and sits inside the City of Austin limits, so commercial work there permits through Austin, not Cedar Park. We know because we have worked that roof since 2021 — TPO, 374 linear feet of curb work on the rooftop-unit replacement, walkway pads, drains, and the leak calls in between.
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For a straight re-roof, no. The city's own list of projects that do not require a permit includes roof covering, non-structural, alongside painting, carpet and fencing. That is unusual for a Texas city this size. Structural work is different: if the decking, framing or trusses are being replaced, that is construction and it needs a permit. The city also says its lists are not comprehensive and to call 512-401-5100 to confirm before starting, so we do.
Texas has no state roofing license, but Cedar Park requires every contractor, existing and new, to register with the city through its MGO Connect portal. There is no fee for it. If a roofer knocking on your door after a storm is not registered, that tells you something about how long they plan to be here.
115 mph, three-second gust, under the 2021 IRC. Cedar Park does not leave that to the state table — it writes its own values into Table R301.2 in the Code of Ordinances at section 3.01.001. The same table sets ground snow load at 5 psf, Seismic Design Category A, weathering negligible, frost line depth under six inches, and it leaves the windborne-debris zone blank. Ice barrier underlayment is not required here.
The 2021 International Residential Code for homes and the 2021 International Building Code for commercial, both effective 1 June 2022, adopted under ordinances C019-18-03-22-E2 and CO16.22.02.24.E1, with local amendments. The electrical code is the 2020 NEC.
NOAA's Storm Events database logs 78 severe hail reports within eight miles of Cedar Park between 2010 and 2026. Inside the city limits, a 28 May 2025 storm dropped two-inch hail — NOAA's narrative records nickel to chicken-egg size for twenty minutes — with golf-ball hail in April 2021 and again in June 2023 before it. Eight miles east, the 24 September 2023 supercell measured 3.75 inches in Round Rock; NOAA puts that complex at $1.3 billion in hail damage across Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
Yes. Texas Property Code section 202.011 says an association may not prohibit or restrict shingles designed primarily to be wind and hail resistant, provided they resemble the shingles already used or authorized in the subdivision, are more durable and of equal or superior quality, and match the surrounding aesthetics. Every Class 4 product we install clears that test.
Usually, but how much is between you and your carrier. Texas rates impact resistance using UL Standard 2218, Class 1 through Class 4, with Class 4 earning the largest credit. In September 2026 the Texas Department of Insurance publicly pressed carriers to write loss-mitigation credits explicitly into their rating plans and to tell policyholders what is available. We hand you the product's UL classification and the installation documentation; the percentage comes from your insurer, and anyone quoting you a figure before you have called them is guessing.
Mostly old enough. Cedar Park's median home was built in 2005. 35.4% of the city's housing — 10,384 homes — went up between 2000 and 2009, so that one cohort is sixteen to twenty-five years old right now. Add the 1990s and it is 55.4% of the city in the replacement window at the same time. Whole streets in Ranch at Cypress Creek and Crossing at Carriage Hills were platted in the mid-1990s and are on their first or second roof.
The address is, the jurisdiction is not. 11200 Lakeline Mall Drive is a Cedar Park 78613 mailing address, but the mall sits inside the City of Austin limits in Williamson County, so commercial permitting there runs through Austin. It is the kind of detail that only matters once, and only if you get it wrong.
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