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Building Permit in Inglewood, California

Inglewood requires an appointment for four named counter transactions including the over-the-counter permit itself, and from 5 January 2026 requires a Registered Architect's stamp on all commercial work of any size.

Verified 2026-09-21 · Source

When you need this permit

  • FOUR TRANSACTIONS NEED AN APPOINTMENT, AND ONE OF THEM IS THE OVER-THE-COUNTER PERMIT: "The following require an appointment via QLESS: Plan Check Submittal, Over-The-Counter (OTC) Permit, Ready-To-Issue (RTI) Permit, Supergraphics Permit". An OTC permit that needs a booked slot is still over-the-counter in the sense that it is issued while you wait - it is not walk-in.
  • WHAT DOES NOT NEED AN APPOINTMENT IS NOT STATED. The page lists what requires QLESS and does not say what is exempt, so do not infer that anything else is walk-in.
  • FROM 5 JANUARY 2026 A REGISTERED ARCHITECT MUST STAMP ALL COMMERCIAL WORK, INCLUDING TENANT IMPROVEMENTS: "all new and tenant improvement commercial construction shall be stamped and signed by a State of California Registered Architect". There is no size floor on the commercial limb of that rule.
  • THE RESIDENTIAL THRESHOLD IS FIVE UNITS, NOT FOUR. "new residential construction of five (5) units or more" falls inside the stamping rule; a fourplex does not. If a project sits at the boundary the unit count decides whether an architect's stamp is required.
  • THE PROFESSION NAMED IS AN ARCHITECT SPECIFICALLY. The sentence says "a State of California Registered Architect", not a licensed design professional and not an engineer. A set of plans stamped by a civil or structural engineer does not obviously satisfy a rule that names architects - confirm with the division before relying on an engineer's stamp for work inside these thresholds.
  • BUILDING SAFETY IS ON THE FOURTH FLOOR at One W. Manchester Blvd. The floor is published as part of the address.

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Fee schedule

Permit fees
No fee schedule or valuation table appears on the Building Safety page. Show full citationNo fee schedule or valuation table appears on the Building Safety page. The cost that IS foreseeable from this page is professional rather than municipal: from 5 January 2026 commercial work of any size needs a Registered Architect's stamp, which is a design-fee consequence rather than a permit-fee one.
NOT PUBLISHED on the page read.

Review timeline

Plan review
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Inspection process

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    NOT PUBLISHED on the Building Safety page read

    The Building Safety page carries no inspection scheduling number, lead time, cut-off or re-inspection rule. A separate Inspections page exists on the City site and was not opened for this record, so this is an absence in what was read rather than a finding that Inglewood publishes nothing.

Tips

  • COMMERCIAL WORK OF ANY SIZE NEEDS A REGISTERED ARCHITECT'S STAMP from 5 January 2026 - tenant improvements included.
  • BOOK QLESS FIRST - even the over-the-counter permit needs an appointment.
  • 5 JANUARY IS THE STAMPING DATE, NOT THE CODE DATE (which is 1 January statewide).

Frequently asked questions

For a lot of work in Inglewood, yes, and from a specific date: "Effective January 5, 2026, all architectural plans for new residential construction of five (5) units or more, and all new and tenant improvement commercial construction shall be stamped and signed by a State of California Registered Architect." Note three things. The residential threshold is FIVE units, so a fourplex sits outside it. The commercial limb has no size floor at all - all new commercial and all tenant improvements are caught. And the rule names a Registered ARCHITECT, not a licensed design professional generally, so do not assume an engineer's stamp satisfies it without asking.

In Inglewood, the published Permit fees is: NOT PUBLISHED on the page read.. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Inglewood does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact City of Inglewood Development Services Department, Building Safety Division at (310) 412-5294 for Building Safety. for current turnaround.

Apply through City of Inglewood Development Services Department, Building Safety Division at One W. Manchester Blvd., 4th floor, Inglewood, CA 90301. The floor is part of the published address - Building Safety is not on the ground floor where City Hall reception sits.. Phone: (310) 412-5294 for Building Safety., email: NOT STATED on the page read. No departmental inbox is published; the telephone number and the QLESS appointment system are the published routes in.. Office hours: "Monday - Friday 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM", with the qualifier that "City Hall is closed on alternating Fridays". Which Fridays alternate is NOT STATED on the page read, so a Friday visit needs checking against the closure calendar first. Note that the hours belong to City Hall as a building - see the gotchas for why that distinction matters here.. Official information: https://www.cityofinglewood.org/236/Building-Safety.

The Building Safety page does not say. It links to the California Building Codes as a general resource and names no adopted edition and no adoption date; two reads framed differently agree. California's 2025 Building Standards Code took effect statewide on 1 January 2026 and, under Health and Safety Code 18938, state building standards apply to all occupancies throughout the state - so that is the floor regardless. Ask the division what local amendments sit on top, because the page names none.

No, and this is worth being careful about. The 5 January 2026 date on the Inglewood page attaches to the architect-stamping requirement, not to a code adoption. The statewide 2025 code date is 1 January 2026. The two dates are four days apart and mean entirely different things - one changes who must sign your plans, the other changes which standards they are drawn to.

No. "The following require an appointment via QLESS: Plan Check Submittal, Over-The-Counter (OTC) Permit, Ready-To-Issue (RTI) Permit, Supergraphics Permit." The over-the-counter permit is itself on the appointment list - OTC here means issued while you wait, not walk-in. The page does not say what, if anything, is exempt from QLESS, so do not assume other business is walk-in either.

"Monday - Friday 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM", but with a real caveat: "City Hall is closed on alternating Fridays", and the page does not say which Fridays. Building Safety is on the 4th floor at One W. Manchester Blvd. Since the four main transactions need a QLESS appointment anyway, the closure matters most as a constraint on which days appointments exist rather than on when you can turn up.

Sources & verification

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Codes & ordinances

Department & other records

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