(a) The commissioner finds that the coast is subject to the following uses:
  (1) residential development, which includes siting, construction, and maintenance of single- and multiple-unit dwellings;
  (2) commercial development, which includes siting, construction, and maintenance of warehouses, offices, retail stores, hotels, restaurants, marinas, and recreational facilities;
  (3) industrial development, which includes siting, construction, operation, and maintenance of oil and gas exploration and development facilities, manufacturing and petrochemical plants, refineries, processing facilities, and ports;
  (4) agricultural development, which includes farming, ranching, silviculture, and aquaculture;
  (5) other development, which includes public buildings, parks, and other public purpose development;
  (6) development of infrastructure, which includes the siting, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, causeways and bridges, railroads, transmission and communication lines, water and sewer lines and pump stations, oil and gas transportation pipelines, and other linear facilities; airports; electric generating facilities; flood control structures, dams, and other water control structures; water, sewage, and wastewater treatment facilities; and solid waste facilities;
  (7) waterfront construction, which includes erosion response projects and shoreline access structures. Erosion response projects include retaining walls, bulkheads, seawalls, rubble mounds, revetments, breakwaters, and groins. Shoreline access structures include piers, docks, wharves, boat ramps, and other structures. Other structures on state submerged land and private submerged land include artificial reefs and fishing cabins;
  (8) dredging, which includes excavation and disposal or placement of material from navigation channels and basins for commercial shipping, recreational boating, and oil and gas exploration and production; excavation for water intake structures, wastewater outfalls, or other structures incidental to shoreline development; and sediment mining on submerged lands; and
  (9) hunting, fishing, and other uses affecting terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.
(b) Because they may adversely affect CNRAs, the commissioner finds that special management of these uses of the coast is necessary for continued balanced development of the coast.

Source Note: The provisions of this §26.2 adopted to be effective December 29, 1995, 20 TexReg 10789; amended to be effective October 7, 2018, 43 TexReg 6449; transferred effective December 1, 2022, as published in the Texas Register October 28, 2022, 47 TexReg 7301