Pomona building permits

Tips & gotchas

• A FOUR-DAY WEEK WITH LONG DAYS, AND THE DEPARTMENT PUBLISHES ITS OWN HOURS RATHER THAN LEAVING YOU TO ASSUME CITY HALL'S. "Walk-in Hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30am to 6:00pm" appears under Development Services' own contact heading. They happen to match City Hall's, but the distinction matters - Corona in this corpus publishes only City Hall's hours and no separate counter times, which is a different situation that looks identical from a search result.
• THE SPANISH-LANGUAGE LINE IS A SEPARATE NUMBER, NOT A MENU OPTION: "Para Informacion en Espanol: 909-620-2190", listed alongside Planning, Building & Safety and Code Compliance as a peer. The city also publishes its ADU Plan Check Guide in both English and Spanish. In a corpus where language access is usually invisible, publishing a direct line and a translated technical guide is worth noting.
• THERE ARE THREE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY APPLICATIONS, NOT ONE - general, "for New ADU & JADU", and "with New Business License". The forms are distinct documents, so the choice is made when you file rather than resolved by staff afterwards.
• EV CHARGING REQUIREMENTS DIFFER BY BUILDING CLASS AND THE CITY SPLITS THEM ACCORDINGLY: separate EV checklists for Residential, Multi-Family Residential and Non-Residential. Reading the wrong one is easy because the titles differ by two words.
• THE FORMS LIBRARY NAMES SITUATIONS MOST CITIES LEAVE UNDOCUMENTED. A "Construction Hardship Form", a "Permit Extension", a "Permit Refund Request", a "Common Wall Agreement", an "Exemption for Underground Utilities", a "Maintenance of Uncertified Fill" form and a "Grading Pad Certification" all exist as published documents. Where a city has made a form for something, it has a process for it - which is a better signal than asking whether something is possible.
• OWNER-BUILDER IS AN EXPLICIT, FORMED CHOICE HERE: the library carries both a "Licensed Contractors Declaration" and an "Owner Builder Authorization". Pulling your own permit is not the absence of a contractor declaration; it is a different declaration.
• THE DAILY INSPECTION SCHEDULE IS PUBLIC AND UNAUTHENTICATED. The city's EnerGov portal exposes a "Today's Inspections" search listing case number, inspection type, address, primary inspector and estimated start and end times, with no login. That is unusually open - most cities in this corpus expose inspection results only to the permit holder - and it is genuinely useful if you are trying to work out where an inspector is in the day. No data from it is reproduced here.
• TWO SEPARATE FEE DOCUMENTS, AND IMPACT FEES ARE ONE OF THEM. A Master Fee Schedule and an Impact Fees document are published separately, which is the same shape as Chula Vista and Fremont - the permit fee is not the whole bill, and the second document is where the rest lives.
• A SELF-CERTIFICATION ROUTE EXISTS FOR SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS: the city publishes a "Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Self-Certification". Where that form exists, the requirement is usually discharged by declaration rather than by inspection - worth knowing before booking a visit for it.
• THE CODES HANDOUT IS TITLED FOR THE CURRENT CYCLE - "Building Codes and Design Criteria 2025" - and it was NOT opened for this record. Its title tells you which cycle the city is working to; its contents, including any local design criteria, are not quoted here and should be read before relying on assumed values.