Santa Maria building inspections

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Inspection sequence, scheduling, and re-inspection fees for building permits in Santa Maria, California.

Verified 2026-09-20 · Source

How to schedule

Inspections are requested through the building department below.

Address: 110 E. Cook Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454
Phone: (805) 925-0951 (City); City Hall fax (805) 349-0657. NO DIRECT BUILDING DIVISION NUMBER was published on the pages read.
Email: NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read for this record.
Office hours: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON FRIDAYS, and the city devotes a page to saying so. From that page: "City of Santa Maria departments are open to the public on Fridays, excluding holidays. Two departments are open on alternating Fridays, excluding holidays. They are: Finance's Utility Billing counter: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; City Hall (City Manager's Office): 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The City Attorney's Office, Community Development & Public Works are not open to the public." The three sentences sit together and the first appears to state a general rule that the third then excepts; read as a whole, Community Development - which houses Building - is among the offices closed to the public. No Monday-to-Thursday counter hours for the Building Division appeared on the pages read, so none is asserted.
Website: Official site

Inspection sequence

Applies to: Building Permit

1
Scheduled, cancelled and viewed in eTRAKiT
The portal carries an Inspections section with three functions - "Schedule", "Cancel" and "Scheduled" - which is the working route to an inspection here.
2
THE CITY'S OWN INSPECTION-REQUEST LINK IS BROKEN
The "Building Permit Inspection" item published under the city's I Want To and Permits & Licenses sections redirects to /doing-business/inspections, which returns "Page Not Found". Checked twice on 2026-09-20, with the same result both times. Use the eTRAKiT portal instead, and expect the website route to fail.
3
NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read: notice period, daily cut-off, arrival windows and inspection types
No advance-notice requirement, cut-off time, AM/PM window or ordered stage list appeared on the pages read for this record. The broken page may once have carried them; the portal instructions document was not opened and may carry them now.

Sources & verification

Verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-09-20.

City of Santa Maria Community Development Department, Building Division — official building department

Online permit portal

Santa Maria eTRAKiT portal (the account routes for property owners and contractors, and the permit, project, contractor, property and inspection functions) - reached from the city's "Apply for Building Permits" link

Codes & ordinances

Department & other records

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