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Carson building permits

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Carson, California — as published 2026-09-21.

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Codes adopted

NO CODE EDITION IS STATED ON EITHER PAGE READ. Two reads of the carsonca.gov page under different framings agree, and the ci.carson.ca.us page names none either. No adoption date, no ordinance number, no municipal code title appears.SO THE EDITION QUESTION IS SETTLED BY STATE LAW RATHER THAN BY CARSON'S PAGES. Health and Safety Code 18938(b) provides that building standards in the California Building Standards Code apply to all occupancies throughout the state, and the 2025 edition took effect statewide on 1 January 2026. That is the floor in Carson whatever the city adds.WHAT CARSON ADDS ON TOP IS UNKNOWN FROM THIS RECORD rather than absent. The Carson Municipal Code was not opened here.

Permit types & fees

Building Permit

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Carson runs a four-day counter of eleven-hour days and maintains two live city websites that both serve building-permit content, with neither pointing at the other.

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Requirements

THE COUNTER IS OPEN FOUR DAYS A WEEK FOR ELEVEN HOURS A DAY: "7 AM - 6 PM Monday - Thursday". Forty-four hours in four days. An applicant who can only come early or late in the day has more room here than at a nine-to-four counter, but has no Friday at all.
THE STAFFED PHONE KEEPS THE SAME WINDOW AS THE COUNTER: "(310) 830-7600, 7 AM - 6 PM Monday - Thursday". Ringing on a Friday is not an alternative to visiting on a Friday.
THERE IS A SECOND, 24-HOUR NUMBER AND THE PAGES DO NOT SAY WHAT IT IS FOR: "24-hour automated: (310) 952-1700". It is published without a label, and nothing read for this record says what it does. Ring (310) 830-7600 and ask rather than assuming.
PERMITS RUN THROUGH CARSON CIVIC ACCESS, which the ci.carson.ca.us page describes as having been made available since 4 June 2024.
CHECK WHICH CARSON WEBSITE YOU ARE ON. Both carsonca.gov and ci.carson.ca.us serve live Building and Safety content and neither carries a notice that the other exists or is superseded.
NO OVER-THE-COUNTER OR APPOINTMENT RULE IS PUBLISHED on the carsonca.gov Building & Safety page - the words over-the-counter, OTC, appointment and Thursday do not appear on it. A third-party summary asserts a Thursday morning OTC slot; it is not on the city page and is not recorded here.

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Fee type	Amount	Notes
Permit fees	NOT PUBLISHED on either page read.	Neither the carsonca.gov nor the ci.carson.ca.us Building & Safety page carries a fee schedule or valuation table. The staffed number (310) 830-7600 is the published route to ask.

Sources & verification

Verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-09-21.

City of Carson Community & Economic Development Department, Building & Safety Division — official building department

Online permit portal

City of Carson Building and Safety on ci.carson.ca.us - the SECOND live city domain, serving the same content with no archival notice, and carrying the Carson Civic Access portal date

Codes & ordinances

Department & other records

City of Carson Building & Safety on carsonca.gov (the address, the two telephone numbers, the email and the four-day counter week)

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