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Fairfield building permits

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Fairfield, California — as published 2026-09-20.

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Codes adopted

NO CODE EDITION OR ADOPTING ORDINANCE WAS PUBLISHED ON THE PAGES READ for this record - the Building Safety and Fairfield BUILD pages. The division describes its work as checking improvements "for safety and building code compliance" without naming an edition, and none is inferred here. The Fairfield Municipal Code is published separately and was not opened.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 edition was published 2025-07-01 and took effect 2026-01-01.THIS IS THE SIXTH CITY ADDED IN THIS CALIFORNIA BATCH WHOSE PERMIT PAGES NEVER NAME AN EDITION, after Redding, Citrus Heights, Hemet, Manteca and Yuba City. That is a count of records written in this batch, not a claim about the corpus as a whole.

Permit types & fees

Building Permit

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Fairfield moved to a new permitting system called BUILD, and provides public kiosks in the City Hall lobby for applicants who cannot submit from home - bring the files on a flash drive.

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Requirements

THE SYSTEM CHANGED AND THE OLD ONE IS NAMED: "Fairfield BUILD (BUILD) is the City's new online permitting system, replacing our former system, TRAKiT." It covers "permits, plans, and scheduling inspections for various departments including Building, Planning, Fire, and Public Works - all in one convenient place."
START BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT: "Begin submitting your building permit application by creating an account in BUILD and attaching plans and additional documentation".
A SPECIFIC PDF FAILURE MODE IS CALLED OUT: "please ensure that PDFs are not secured or password protected." A locked PDF is a submittal that cannot be reviewed.
IF YOU HAVE USED THE SAME PLATFORM ELSEWHERE, REUSE THE EMAIL: "If you have used EnerGov/Civic Access with a different jurisdiction, please use the same email address when registering for your City of Fairfield BUILD account." The account is portable across jurisdictions running the same product.
THERE IS A ROUTE FOR PEOPLE WITHOUT A COMPUTER: "Public access computers/kiosks can be used in the Community Development lobby (2nd floor) at City Hall to submit building permit applications--please load your files, plans, attachments onto a flash drive before visiting us to use the kiosk."
WHAT THE DIVISION DOES: "The Building Safety Division reviews all new construction, improvements, and alterations to existing structures in the city of Fairfield. Improvements are checked for safety and building code compliance."

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Fee type	Amount	Notes
Permit fees	NOT TRANSCRIBED for this record.	The division publishes a "Permit Fee Information" section, which did not resolve to a readable page on the pages read. No fee schedule was opened and no fee basis is stated, so none is asserted. Invoices are paid through BUILD.

Sources & verification

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

City of Fairfield Community Development Department, Building Safety Division — official building department

Applications & forms

City of Fairfield Building Safety (the division's remit, the unsecured-PDF requirement, the public submittal kiosks, and the four separate published schedules including the alternating Friday closure)

Codes & ordinances

Department & other records

Fairfield BUILD (the EnerGov/Civic Access permitting system replacing TRAKiT, the cross-jurisdiction account advice and the three departmental mailboxes)

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

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