San Bernardino building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for San Bernardino, California.
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Building department
- Address
- 201 North E Street, San Bernardino, CA
- Phone
- 909-998-2000
- Office hours
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8 am to 5 pm. Wednesday: 10 am to 5 pm. Friday: 8 am to 4 pm. LAST SIGN-IN FOR PERMIT ISSUANCE IS EARLIER THAN CLOSING: 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday, 2:30 pm Friday.
- Website
- Official site
Codes adopted
California publishes its building standards as Title 24, adopted by state agencies and republished on a three-year cycle. A city or county may change those standards only after its governing body makes an express finding that the change is reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions, and no change becomes operative until the finding and the change have been filed with the California Building Standards Commission.
2025 California Building Standards Code (Cal. Code Regs., Title 24) - published July 1, 2025 by the California Building Standards Commission, effective January 1, 2026. Show full textShow less
2025 California Building Standards Code (Cal. Code Regs., Title 24) - published July 1, 2025 by the California Building Standards Commission, effective January 1, 2026. This is the statewide edition in force; it is not a city-specific adoption. Health & Safety Code s 18938(b): building standards adopted into the California Building Standards Code "shall apply to all occupancies throughout the state and shall become effective 180 days after publication."
- THE CITY'S OWN ADOPTING ORDINANCE WAS NOT READ FOR THIS RECORD, so no city ordinance number or local effective date is asserted here.
Permit types & fees
San Bernardino's permit history isn't searchable here yet
This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for San Bernardino yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.
Your email, and the place — never an address. We only use it to tell you when San Bernardino lands. Privacy.
Tips & gotchas
- THE COUNTER CLOSES LATER THAN IT ISSUES PERMITS. San Bernardino publishes a last sign-in for permit issuance of 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and 2:30 pm on Friday, while the counter itself stays open to 5 pm and 4 pm respectively. On a Friday that is an hour and a half of open door during which a permit cannot be issued.
- WEDNESDAY OPENS TWO HOURS LATE, at 10 am rather than 8 am.
- THE DEPARTMENT EMAIL IS STILL ON THE OLD DOMAIN. The city's website has moved from sbcity.org to sanbernardino.gov, but the published contact address remains CD-Technician@sbcity.org.
- THE CITY'S WEB DOMAIN HAS MOVED: sbcity.org now 301s to sanbernardino.gov. Deep links survive the move, so an old link still reaches the right page - but the canonical domain has changed.
- California's code changes on a fixed statewide cycle rather than per city. The 2025 California Building Standards Code took effect January 1, 2026; the previous 2022 edition took effect January 1, 2023.
- Between October 1, 2025 and June 1, 2031 California cities generally may not adopt new residential amendments to the state code (H&SC s 17958(b)), so a residential requirement a city published before that window may no longer be amendable - check the current state code rather than an older local bulletin.