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Pomona building permits

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Pomona, California — as published 2026-09-19.

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Codes adopted

THE CITY PUBLISHES A HANDOUT TITLED "Building Codes and Design Criteria 2025" in its Building Application & Forms library. THE DOCUMENT WAS NOT OPENED FOR THIS RECORD, so no edition list, design value or local amendment is quoted from it - only that the city maintains a current codes-and-criteria handout and that its title names the 2025 cycle.THE CITY'S OWN ADOPTING ORDINANCE WAS NOT READ FOR THIS RECORD, so no Pomona ordinance number or local effective date is asserted here.Health & Safety Code 18938(b) provides that building standards in the California Building Standards Code "shall apply to all occupancies throughout the state and shall become effective 180 days after publication." The 2025 code was published July 1, 2025 and took effect January 1, 2026.

Permit types & fees

Building Permit

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Pomona's Development Services Department runs three divisions out of City Hall - Planning, Building Safety and Code Compliance - on a four-day week. Its published forms library is one of the most granular in this corpus, and its permit system exposes a public daily inspection schedule.

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Requirements

THE DEPARTMENT IS THREE DIVISIONS AND THE CITY SAYS WHAT EACH DOES: Planning "Handles land use and zoning inquires, entitlement review, implements the Zoning code"; Building Safety "Reviews construction plans, issues building permits, provides inspections and ensures building code compliance"; Code Compliance "Manages City-wide code related compliance, inspections, and violations."
THREE APPLICATION ROUTES ARE PUBLISHED: a general Permit Application, a Solar App+ Permit Application, and a Grading Application.
WHO IS DOING THE WORK IS A DOCUMENTED DECISION: the forms library carries both a "Licensed Contractors Declaration" and an "Owner Builder Authorization", so the owner-builder route is an explicit, separately-formed choice rather than an absence of a contractor.
THE CITY PUBLISHES "DO I NEED A PERMIT?" GUIDANCE AS FOUR SEPARATE DOCUMENTS - general information plus one each for Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing permits.

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Fee type	Amount	Notes
Fee documents	NOT TRANSCRIBED for this record.	The city publishes a Master Fee Schedule and a separate Impact Fees document in its Building Application & Forms library. Neither was opened here, so no amount, schedule or fee basis is asserted.
Refunds and extensions are formalised	Both have their own forms.	A "Permit Refund Request" and a "Permit Extension" form are published rather than being handled ad hoc. Where a city publishes a refund form, a refund is a defined process - which is worth knowing before abandoning a permit.

Sources & verification

Verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-09-19.

City of Pomona Development Services Department, Building Safety Division — official building department

Applications & forms

Pomona - Building Application & Forms (applications, the forms library, plan submittal requirement sets, the Do I Need a Permit documents and the Building Codes and Design Criteria 2025 handout)

Online permit portal

Pomona EnerGov self-service portal - the public "Today's Inspections" search

Codes & ordinances

Department & other records

Fees, timelines, and adopted codes are researched from each jurisdiction's published records — see how we verify. Requirements change and vary by project, so always confirm the current details with the Pomona building department before you submit. PermitBase is an independent reference and is not affiliated with any government agency.

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