Springerville building permits

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Department contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Springerville, Arizona.

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Building department

Address: 418 E. Main St., Springerville, AZ 85938
Phone: 928-333-2656 ext. 227 (Building Department); 928-333-2656 (Planning & Zoning main line); fax 928-333-5598
Email: Publicly listed on the Town's Building Department page as an obfuscated/masked address; no plain-text department email address was recoverable from the live site. Contact by phone at 928-333-2656 ext. 227, or via the Town's online contact form at springervilleaz.gov/contact-us.
Office hours: Not published on the Town's Building Department page as of the last verification (no explicit hours-of-operation statement was found on the Building Department, Community Development, or Contact Us pages). Applicants must contact the Building Department a minimum of twenty-four (24) hours in advance to schedule an inspection, per the Town's own permit application forms.
Website: Official site

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Springerville — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Arizona has no statewide building code for non-state buildings; codes are adopted locally. According to the International Code Council, codes are adopted locally in Arizona and are predominantly the I-codes, with different cities and counties choosing their own editions and local amendments. The Arizona State Fire Code (adopting the 2018 IFC) applies only to state and county buildings, public and private schools, and non-residential occupancies in areas without a locally adopted fire code — it does not establish a statewide residential or commercial building code floor. Each city and county adopts its own code editions independently, resulting in different I-Code years and amendment sets across jurisdictions. There is no state-mandated minimum edition; enforcement is entirely local. Always confirm the adopted edition and any local amendments with the specific jurisdiction before submitting plans.

Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-city/county authority under state enabling statutes (e.g., A.R.S. Show full textShow less
Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-city/county authority under state enabling statutes (e.g., A.R.S. Title 9 for municipalities). The Town of Springerville runs its own Planning & Zoning Department / Building Department and independently adopts and administers its own construction codes and fee schedule; it does NOT defer building permitting to Apache County or to the neighboring Town of Eagar — Springerville's own permit applications, fee schedule, and Municipal Code sections (e.g., Chapter 17.28 Walls and Fences, Chapter 17.88 Plan Review) are self-contained and administered entirely by Springerville's own Planning & Zoning/Building staff. This is confirmed independently from Springerville's own primary sources, not inferred from the Eagar precedent.
2015 edition of the International Residential Code (IRC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document (springervilleaz.gov, Building Department Forms), restated verbatim on multiple Town permit application checklists (Manufactured Home, Shed/Storage, Plan/Design Review).
2015 International Building Code (IBC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville for commercial/non-residential construction. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
2015 International Fire Code (IFC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville as its uniform fire code. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
2015 International Mechanical Code (IMC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
2015 International Plumbing Code (IPC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
2015 International Green Building Code (IgCC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
2014 National Electrical Code (NEC), as adopted by the Town of Springerville (electrical code cycle predates the 2015 ICC set). Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' reference document.
Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and factory-built buildings (FBB) are regulated directly by the State of Arizona (Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety, Office of Manufactured Housing, 1110 West… Show full textShow less
Manufactured homes, mobile homes, and factory-built buildings (FBB) are regulated directly by the State of Arizona (Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety, Office of Manufactured Housing, 1110 West Washington, Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85007) for construction/installation standards, including HUD federal preemption under 24 CFR §3280 (construction) and §3285 (installation, non-preemptive — local jurisdictions MAY set stricter local snow-load/installation standards per the Department's own May 24, 2010 clarification letter); the Town of Springerville issues a separate local Manufactured Home Installation Permit for site installation, utility connections, accessory structures, and inspections. Source: Town of Springerville Manufactured Home Installation Permit Application (Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety letterhead) and Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety letter re: Design Roof Load Zone 'South' in Arizona (May 24, 2010).
Flood Hazards: the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as adopted by the Town Council of Springerville on 10/2/2007, administered by the Apache County Engineer. Source: Town of Springerville 'Building Health and Safety' / Climate and Geographic Design reference document.
The specific adopted code edition years above are sourced directly from the Town's own (non-Municode) 'Building Health and Safety' reference PDF, a primary town-published source, with identical text appearing on at least… Show full textShow less
The specific adopted code edition years above are sourced directly from the Town's own (non-Municode) 'Building Health and Safety' reference PDF, a primary town-published source, with identical text appearing on at least three separate Town permit-application PDFs (Manufactured Home, Shed/Storage, and the standalone Building Health and Safety document). The Town's Code of Ordinances is hosted on Municode Library (library.municode.com/az/springerville).

Permit types & fees

Springerville's permit history isn't searchable here yet

This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for Springerville yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.

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New residential construction activity

New privately-owned residential construction only

Housing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).

Latest month (2026-07): No data reported
Trailing 12 months: No data reported
Year to date (2026 YTD): No data reported
Full year 2025: 22units
10 buildings · $4.7M valuation

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-07 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Arizona building activity

Tips & gotchas

Springerville and Eagar are twin Round Valley towns that jointly fund/operate the Round Valley Fire & Medical Department for fire/EMS response (confirmed independently in Eagar's own research via a joint fire-restriction proclamation co-signed by both towns' mayors). This joint arrangement is LIMITED TO FIRE/EMS and does NOT extend to building-code adoption or permit issuance — Springerville's Building Department (under its Planning & Zoning Department) is entirely self-contained, with its own permit applications, its own fee schedule (effective January 15, 2025), its own adopted code editions, and its own Municipal Code sections (e.g., Chapter 17.28 Walls and Fences, Chapter 17.88 Plan Review, Chapter 17.100 Signs). This was independently verified from Springerville's own primary sources (its Building Department page, its permit application PDFs, its fee schedule, and Municipal Code citations reachable via web search) — not assumed from the Eagar precedent.
Adopted codes per the Town's own 'Building Health and Safety' reference document (confirmed identically across at least 3 separate Town PDFs): 2015 IRC, IBC, IFC, IMC, IPC, and International Green Building Code, plus 2014 NEC — one code cycle newer than neighboring Eagar's 2018 IRC/IBC/IPC/IMC/IPMC/IFC + 2011 NEC, despite the two towns' geographic proximity, illustrating that each town cycles its code adoptions independently.
Town-specific climatic/geographic design criteria: elevation 7,000 ft, 90 mph wind design (Exposure B) with 25 mph secondary gusts, Seismic Design Category B, 4°F winter design temperature (notably colder than Eagar's stated 15°F, despite similar elevation — both are White Mountains high-elevation rural jurisdictions), 32-36 PSF snow loads depending on roof pitch, 18-inch frost line depth, and None-to-Slight termite potential. Flood hazards follow the NFIP as adopted by Town Council on 10/2/2007, administered by the Apache County Engineer (a delegated administrative function, distinct from building-permit authority itself, which the Town retains).
UNIFORM 10-WORKING-DAY REVIEW STANDARD: every Springerville permit type researched (Plan/Design Review, Wall/Fence, Solar, Sign, Utility/Mechanical, Shed/Storage, and Demolition, which uses the same Plan/Design Review track) cites an identical 'ten (10) working days from submission... review and approve, conditionally approve, or deny; if routed through the Planning & Zoning Commission, 5 additional days' standard, rooted in Municipal Code Chapter 17.88 (Plan Review) and independently corroborated by direct Municipal Code citation in Chapter 17.28.070 (Walls and Fences, using the term 'business days'). This is treated as verified confidence for every permit type in this record because it is directly codified, not merely repeated boilerplate.
The Manufactured Home / Factory-Built Building Installation Permit is the one permit type here with no published review-timeline figure (as opposed to the 6-month expiration and per-inspection fee figures, which ARE published): neither the Town's local application nor the State's parallel Factory Built-Building application, nor the Town's Fee Schedule or Building Department page, publishes one.
Manufactured/mobile home CONSTRUCTION standards are federally preempted nationwide under HUD's 24 CFR §3280 (Arizona is entirely HUD Design Roof Load Zone 'South', 20 psf), but INSTALLATION standards under 24 CFR §3285 are not preempted — confirmed via a May 24, 2010 Arizona Department of Fire, Building and Life Safety clarification letter embedded directly in the Town's own Manufactured Home Permit Application PDF, meaning Springerville (like any AZ local jurisdiction) may set a stricter local installation/snow-load standard for new manufactured homes than the federal 20 psf construction floor.
The Fee Schedule effective January 15, 2025 is a scanned/rasterized PDF: copied text comes out with the dollar figures shifted relative to their fee labels. Read the figures from the page as published rather than from a copy-paste.
A separate, later-effective fee period exists for Manufactured/Modular/FBB Permits specifically (July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027) stated on the SAME January 15, 2025 fee-schedule document — this straddling of two effective-date regimes on one document is a genuine feature of the source, not a transcription error, and is preserved as-is in the fee entries.
The Municipal Code section numbers and text cited for this jurisdiction (17.28.060, 17.28.070, 17.88, 17.90, 17.100) are sourced from full-text excerpts embedded directly within the Town's own permit-application PDFs — e.g., the Wall/Fence Permit Application reproduces the full text of Chapter 17.28.070 — which are primary town-published sources, not third-party mirrors. The code is also hosted on Municode at library.municode.com/az/springerville.
Ordinance No. 2020-007 (referenced in a Municode search hit) and Ordinance 2016-005 (the Building Valuation Data adoption ordinance cited on the Fee Schedule) were identified but their full text could not be retrieved due to the same Municode 403 block; the fee-schedule's own citation of Ordinance 2016-005 as its Building Permit Fee authority is treated as sufficient sourcing for that specific fact, since it is stated on a Town-published primary document (the Fee Schedule itself).
Rental units are classified as COMMERCIAL property for permitting purposes across every permit type in this record — a landlord doing any rental-property work must use a commercial-licensed contractor, per the Town's uniformly restated 'Permits Required' reference page.