Patio Covers in Kilgore
Kilgore gives accessory buildings their own entry. The City of Kilgore's Permits page lists a Residential Accessory Building Permit, with its own procedure document and application, apart from its Residential Building Permit. Whether a patio cover is treated as an accessory building is not something the page says.
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The page (read October 7, 2026) lists, as separate entries, a Residential Accessory Building Permit (with a Residential Accessory Building Permit Procedure and a Residential Accessory Structure Permit Application) and a Residential Building Permit, under which it lists a document titled "2021 IRC Code Significant Changes". It does not define "accessory building" and does not mention patio covers.
None of these city pages mentions patio covers, so what follows is our inference, not a rule: a city that gives accessory buildings their own entry may sort a backyard structure differently from one that does not, so the same project may follow a different page in Kilgore than in Longview. Longview's Unified Development Code page also lists accessory buildings as a topic, and states no requirement.
Permits and the City of Kilgore rules
The City of Kilgore's Permits page lists a Residential Accessory Building Permit and a Residential Building Permit as separate entries. It does not say which, if either, a patio cover falls under.
Source: City of Kilgore, Permits page (read October 7, 2026) — confirm current requirements with the City of Kilgore.
See all Patio Covers in Longview. We also work in Longview, White Oak, Gladewater and the other cities we list. Related pages: adopted building codes, the Unified Development Code topics, asking the City first and East Texas weather and sun. Source: City of Kilgore, Permits page (read October 7, 2026).
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