Hiring local businesses in Highland Park

The Town issues its own building permits and runs contractor registration, permits and inspections through an online OpenGov portal. A contractor enrolls in the Town's Contractor Registration program first, then applies for permits, pays fees and requests inspections there. Inspection requests must be in by 4 p.m. for the next business day.

Ask any contractor whether they're registered with the Town and get the permit number before work starts. Before taking down a large tree, call the Town's building office and ask whether removal needs a permit.

Highland Park floodplain permits

Building or rebuilding in the floodplain needs a special Town permit under Chapter 3, Article 3.12 of the Town code, and work in a FEMA-regulated floodplain may also need notice to FEMA. The Town Engineer is the Floodplain Administrator. Check an address on FEMA's Map Service Center before planning an addition.

Water comes from the Dallas County Park Cities Municipal Utility District. The Town's watering schedule gives even-numbered addresses Sundays and Thursdays and odd-numbered ones Saturdays and Wednesdays, and lawn irrigation is banned from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from April 1 through October 31. Hand watering and soaker hoses are still allowed in those hours.

Highland Park (ZIP 75205) is in Oncor's delivery area inside ERCOT's retail-choice market, so you pick a retail electricity provider and Oncor owns the wires.

Brush goes out twice a week, set on the parkway by 7 a.m.: Mondays and Thursdays west of Preston Road, Tuesdays and Fridays east of it. The Town runs mosquito control all year, steps it up from April through October and tests for West Nile virus with Dallas County Health and Human Services. It also takes part in the Dallas County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Action Plan.

Highland Park property tax

Property here is appraised by the Dallas Central Appraisal District (DCAD). The 2026 protest deadline for residential real property was May 15, 2026. NCTCOG lists the Town's 2020 U.S. Census population as 8,864.

• House and roof: AC repair, roofers and cleaning services
• Yard: pool service
• Professional and everyday: lawyers, dentists, realtors and gyms

For trades without a Highland Park page, the Dallas pages cover the same Texas license checks, though Dallas permit rules stop at the Town line. Richardson is a short drive north, and the Dallas-Fort Worth page lists the rest of the metro.