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Building permit in West Covina, California

West Covina's Building Division works from Room 215 at 1444 W Garvey Avenue S, on a four-day week that runs longer each day than a typical counter schedule - 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Thursday. Plan submittal runs through a named third-party portal rather than a city-hosted system, and the division publishes one telephone number that serves as both its main line and its inspection request line.

Verified 2026-09-21 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Submit plans through the city's named portal: the "Building Submittal Portal" at https://gopost-transtech.eplansoftreview.com/#/login?portal=westcovinabldg - a vendor-hosted system, not a city domain.
  • Published Building Division forms are "Application - Permit and Plan Check", "Building Permit Fee Estimate Worksheet", "Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Checklist" and "Owner-Builder Declaration". Owner-builder
  • Plans are reviewed against the "2025 California Fire Code, 2025 California Building Code, California Health and Safety Code, and West Covina Municipal Code (WCMC)".
  • Counter hours are "Monday through Thursday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm" - the office is closed Friday.

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Plan check fees
The Plan Check page states "All fees for plan check are listed in the City of West Covina's Adopted Fee Schedule" but prints no amount. Show full citationThe Plan Check page states "All fees for plan check are listed in the City of West Covina's Adopted Fee Schedule" but prints no amount. The city publishes a Master Fee Schedule as a separate document; its figures were NOT read for this record, so no amount is recorded here rather than one being carried over second-hand. The city also publishes a "Building Permit Fee Estimate Worksheet" among its Building Division forms.
NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read.

Review timeline

Plan review
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Inspection process

  1. Inspection request: 626-939-8425

    The Building Division page lists "Inspection Request: 626-939-8425" - the same number published as the division's main line. No notice period, daily cutoff time or online booking route is stated on the page read.

Tips

  • The counter runs to 5:30 pm - later than many four-day schedules - but it is closed Friday, so a Thursday afternoon miss costs the rest of the week.
  • One number does double duty. 626-939-8425 is both the division's main line and its inspection request line, so an inspection call competes with counter enquiries.

Frequently asked questions

West Covina requires a building permit for: Submit plans through the city's named portal: the "Building Submittal Portal" at https://gopost-transtech.eplansoftreview.com/#/login?portal=westcovinabldg - a vendor-hosted system, not a city domain.; Published Building Division forms are "Application - Permit and Plan Check", "Building Permit Fee Estimate Worksheet", "Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Checklist" and "Owner-Builder Declaration".; Plans are reviewed against the "2025 California Fire Code, 2025 California Building Code, California Health and Safety Code, and West Covina Municipal Code (WCMC)".; Counter hours are "Monday through Thursday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm" - the office is closed Friday.. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of West Covina Community Development Department, Building Division at 626-939-8425 - the Building Division line, which is also the number published for inspection requests before starting work.

NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read. The Plan Check page points to the city's Adopted Fee Schedule for amounts, and the Building Division publishes a "Building Permit Fee Estimate Worksheet", but no figure appears on the pages read for this record.

NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read for this record - including on the Plan Check page itself, which describes what plans are reviewed against without stating how long that review takes.

Depending on your project, West Covina may also ask for: ; ; ; ; . See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Apply through City of West Covina Community Development Department, Building Division at 1444 W Garvey Avenue S, Room 215, West Covina, CA 91790. Phone: 626-939-8425 - the Building Division line, which is also the number published for inspection requests, email: building@westcovina.org - published on a page served from westcovina.gov, so the contact address sits on the domain the website itself has left. Whether mail to the .org address still reaches the division is NOT STATED on the page.. Office hours: "Monday through Thursday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm". Official information: https://www.westcovina.gov/228/Building-Division.

The "2025 California Fire Code, 2025 California Building Code, California Health and Safety Code, and West Covina Municipal Code (WCMC)", per the city's Plan Check page. No adoption or effective date is published alongside that list, and neither the Building Division page nor the applications page repeats it.

Through the "Building Submittal Portal" the Building Division page links to, hosted at gopost-transtech.eplansoftreview.com. It is a third-party plan review system rather than a city-run portal, so the address a reader is asked to trust is not a city domain.

Not necessarily. westcovina.org issues an HTTP 301 to westcovina.gov while keeping the original path, and the current site uses numbered CivicPlus paths, so old path-style links land on addresses that do not exist. The Building Division is at /228/Building-Division and the fee schedule at /267/Fee-Schedule.

Sources & verification

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

Fee schedules

Applications & forms

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 West Covina building department before you submit. PermitBase is an independent reference and is not affiliated with any government agency.

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