The Colony is the only city in North Texas whose adopted code answers "Yes" to ice barrier underlayment. Every other city around it answers No. That is a real line item, and it belongs in your scope.
The Colony adopted the 2024 International Residential Code with Appendices A through Q excluding L, plus the 2024 IBC, by Ordinance 2025-2607, adopted 17 June 2025. Crucially, the city writes its own amendment table rather than adopting the regional package by reference — which is why its numbers differ from its neighbours'.
The headline is the ice barrier. The Colony's codified Table R301.2(1) answers "ICE BARRIER UNDERLAYMENT REQUIRED: YES." Every other city we work in answers No. It also sets the frost line depth at 7 inches rather than the regional 6. That means an eave ice-barrier membrane under R905.1.2 belongs in the scope and in the price of a shingle re-roof here. If a competing bid does not mention it, either they have not read The Colony's table or they are planning to leave it out. Ask directly.
The adopted design wind speed is 105 mph, verified in the city's own codified table.
The Colony also requires a jobsite sign before work starts. Its amendment R115.1 mandates a minimum three-square-foot site management sign posted with the permit at every jobsite before work begins, carrying the permit address, the general contractor's name and local phone number, the project name, the city's violation-report number, and this text: "Construction hours are 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. when work is on or adjacent to residential use and multifamily." It stays up until the permit is final. R115.3 additionally requires jobsite trash receptacles to be covered at the end of each workday.
Fees are modest and clear: $75 for a single-family re-roof, and $10 per $1,000 of value with a $100 minimum for multi-family and commercial — that is 1% of job value, the only value-based commercial roofing formula in this area. Work performed without a permit has the schedule fee doubled, and R108.8.2 separately provides an investigation fee equal to the permit fee. Contractor registration is $75 annually and Roofing Contractor is a listed registration type. Failing to register costs the registration fee plus a penalty equal to it.
Debris here is permit-based rather than an exclusive franchise — more workable than Frisco or Rowlett. A hauler needs a city solid waste collection permit ($50 non-refundable application, expiring 31 December) and pays 10% of gross receipts earned inside the city, with vehicles and containers identified in two-inch lettering. Note that city residential collection will not take construction debris.
One thing we will not claim: The Colony's zoning creates an "H" Historic Landmark suffix mechanism, but no Certificate of Appropriateness process is actually written into it and we could not confirm that any property currently carries the suffix. We are not going to tell you there is a historic review here. On the commercial side, the Gateway Overlay District does prohibit any form of metal roofing without a waiver — but that is corridor commercial, not houses.
The Colony's wind record is the most severe we found anywhere in this project — and it is logged by NOAA under the name CARNEY, not The Colony, which is why competitor pages miss it. On 28 May 2024, a 96 mph thunderstorm gust was recorded 0.2 miles from the city centre. On 2 March 2023, 90 mph. On 11 June 2023, 3.50-inch hail four and a half miles out with 3.00 inches two miles out. On 13 April 2019, 2.75-inch hail 0.6 miles from the centre. An EF1 tornado passed 1.1 miles away on 8 March 2016. The area has logged 47 hail days since 2015, and Denton County as a whole recorded 84 — more than any county in this study. Lake Lewisville fetch is measurable in that data.
Housing is the oldest share among the north-side lake cities: 19,388 units, median year built 2001, 21.3% built before 1980 and 46.9% before 2000, with 40.2% renter-occupied. The numbered "The Colony" sections — No. 5, No. 20, No. 21, No. 27, No. 29 — carry the 1970s and 80s stock and sit outside all twelve of the city's mapped HOA boundaries.
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View Roof Maintenance →The Colony's codified Table R301.2(1) answers Yes to ice barrier underlayment and sets the frost line at 7 inches — the only city in this area that does either. That means an eave ice-barrier membrane under R905.1.2 belongs in the price of a shingle re-roof here. If a competing bid does not name it, ask whether they have read The Colony's table. Their answer will tell you a lot.
R115.1 requires a minimum three-square-foot site management sign posted with the permit at every jobsite before work starts — permit address, contractor name and local phone number, project name, the city's violation-report number and the 7 a.m.–10 p.m. construction hours. R115.3 requires the trash receptacle covered at the end of each workday. We do both, which is also why your neighbours know who to call.
NOAA logs this area as CARNEY, which is why most roofing pages miss the record: a 96 mph gust in May 2024 and 90 mph in March 2023, both effectively on top of the city, plus 3.50-inch hail in June 2023 and 47 hail days since 2015. Lake Lewisville fetch is real and it is measurable in the data. Ridge, rake and eave detailing is where we spend the time here.
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In The Colony, yes — it is a code requirement, not an upgrade. The city's codified Table R301.2(1) answers Yes to ice barrier underlayment required, and it is the only city in this area that does. Every neighbouring city answers No. That means an eave ice-barrier membrane under R905.1.2 belongs in the scope and the price of a shingle re-roof here.
105 mph, from the city's own codified table under the 2024 IRC adopted by Ordinance 2025-2607 on 17 June 2025. The Colony writes its own amendment table rather than adopting the regional package by reference, which is why its figures — including the 7-inch frost line and the ice barrier requirement — differ from its neighbours'.
Amendment R115.1 requires a site management sign of at least three square feet, posted with the permit at every jobsite before work starts and maintained until the permit is final. It must carry the permit address, the general contractor's name and local phone number, the project name, the city's number for reporting violations, and the construction hours: 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. where work is on or adjacent to residential or multifamily use.
$75 for a single-family re-roof. Multi-family and commercial is $10 per $1,000 of value with a $100 minimum — 1% of job value, and the only value-based commercial roofing formula in this area. Work performed without a permit has the schedule fee doubled, and R108.8.2 separately provides an investigation fee equal to the permit fee.
Yes — Roofing Contractor is a listed registration type on the city's form, at $75 annually under the general contractor line. Registration is non-transferable and no permits are issued to a contractor whose registration has expired. Failing to register costs the registration fee plus a penalty equal to it.
Yes, if their hauler holds a city permit — The Colony runs a permit-based system rather than an exclusive franchise, which makes it more flexible than Frisco or Rowlett. The hauler needs a solid waste collection permit ($50 non-refundable application, expiring 31 December) and pays 10% of gross receipts earned inside the city, with vehicles and containers identified in two-inch lettering. City residential collection will not take construction debris.
We are not going to tell you there is. The Colony's zoning creates an "H" Historic Landmark suffix mechanism, but no Certificate of Appropriateness process is actually written into it and we could not confirm that any property currently carries the suffix. On the commercial side, the Gateway Overlay District does prohibit any form of metal roofing without a waiver — but that applies to the corridor, not to houses.
The most severe record we found anywhere in this region. A 96 mph thunderstorm gust was recorded 0.2 miles from the city centre on 28 May 2024, and 90 mph on 2 March 2023. NOAA logs this area under the name CARNEY rather than The Colony, which is why so many roofing pages miss it entirely. Add 3.50-inch hail in June 2023, 2.75-inch in April 2019, an EF1 tornado 1.1 miles out in March 2016, and 47 hail days since 2015.
Those sections — No. 5, No. 20, No. 21, No. 27, No. 29 — carry the city's 1970s and 80s housing, and they sit outside all twelve of the city's mapped HOA boundaries. So you have the oldest roofs in the city and no architectural committee to clear a colour with. Practically, it means a faster start and a genuinely older deck to assess.
If you are in one of the twelve associations the city maps — The Tribute, The Legends, The Cascades, Stewart Peninsula, Austin Waters, Parks of Austin Ranch, Westport Lakeview Villas, Village at The Pointe, Camey Place and the others — almost certainly for colour and profile. We could verify the association names but not their individual roofing rules, so the covenants are the authority. We prepare the architectural submittal as part of the job.
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