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Home Edition
2026
Readers, welcome to the annual CI Home Edition! In this year’s guide, reporters do a deep dive on a new master-planned community that will add to League City’s growth along the west side of the city. In April, two ZIP codes saw a decrease in the number of homes sold, while two saw an increase compared to the same month last year. Homes also spent more time on the market compared to April 2025, data shows.
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City ordinance a ects live-aboards
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Currently, if the boat is inoperable or partially dismantled for 30 days, the city can abate, or remove, it, Dietrich said. “Right now, I am 32 days into a repair on my boat,” Dietrich said. “In their ordinance ... the city can abate it.” League City City Council will consider adopting amendments to the ordinance at its May 12 meeting, said Sarah Osbourne, director of communications and community engagement. The city is considering the amendments after hearing concerns from both live-aboards and marina owners, Mayor Nick Long said. The amendments could increase how many days you can stay on a boat and make it easier to reapply for a permit, as well as increase the penalties for dumping, Long said.
Nearly ve months after League City passed new marina permits and inspections, people who live on their boats, or live-aboards, say it has caused a “mass exodus.” League City City Council voted 7-1 to approve an ordinance creating new regulations for live-aboard vessels, abandoned and derelict vessels and sanitation within city waterways at its Dec. 16 meeting. Dustin Dietrich and his wife lived on their boats in the Bay for over seven years, but after the ordinance passed, they moved to Galveston, as Dietrich said many of their friends have done. Ashley Shutter said she’d lived on sailboats her entire life in the Bay Area where her father began his business repairing sailboats. Shutter, who is currently in Mexico, said she’d attended a few town hall meetings but felt her community’s concerns fell on “deaf ears.” “Home is somewhere I can no longer live,” Shutter said.
Dustin Dietrich said he chose to move his family from the A marina JMK5 Holdings in Kemah to B Galveston after League City passed an ordinance requiring permits and inspections.
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“They may not see it as that, but they’re losing us.” DUSTIN DIETRICH, FORMER LIVE ABOARD IN CLEAR LAKE
Dietrich’s wife and her customers transferred from Clear Lake to Galveston West Marine after the ordinance. COURTESY DUSTIN DIETRICH
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