{"id":288600,"date":"2026-05-11T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288600\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:27:21","slug":"preview-league-city-to-consider-amending-live-aboard-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288600\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: League City to consider amending live-aboard ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFollowing last year\u2019s decision to pass a controversial ordinance requiring inspections and permits for boats, League City City Council will consider amending the ordinance at its May 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/leaguecity.legistar.com\/Calendar.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How we got here<\/p>\n<p>City Council voted 7-1 to approve the ordinance creating regulations for live-aboard vessels, abandoned and derelict vessels and sanitation within city waterways in December, according to previous <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/government\/2025\/12\/19\/live-aboards-in-league-city-will-be-required-to-comply-with-new-permits-inspections\/\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s different?<\/p>\n<p>The amendments up for consideration would increase the cap for how many days of the month someone can live on their boat and make it easier to reapply for a permit after a failed permit application, Mayor Nick Long said.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, the ordinance requires people who live on their boats for at least 10 of 30 days to have a permit, which has created friction among people who want to vacation longer on their boats, Long said. The amendment would increase the number of days to 15, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make sure that we&#8217;re capturing the real spirit of law and not trying to get overly legalistic with it,\u201d Long said.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments would also strengthen anti\u2011dumping rules and penalties, targeting people dumping human waste into the water, Long said.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>City Council will also consider a public camping ban, targeted at curbing <a href=\"https:\/\/beta2.communityimpact.com\/austin\/central-austin\/government\/2026\/05\/05\/austin-outlines-expanded-approach-to-homeless-encampment-closures\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">people living in tents<\/a> at the sportsplex and along parts of FM 2094 and FM 518, Long said.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>The council will meet at 6 p.m. May 12 at Council Chambers, located at 200 W. Walker St., League City.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following last year\u2019s decision to pass a controversial ordinance requiring inspections and permits for boats, League City City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[105730,71682,56,58,57,52553,52554],"class_list":["post-288600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-council-league-city","tag-government-in-league-city","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-league-city-city-council","tag-league-city-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}