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Building Permit in Vallejo, California

Vallejo runs a Central Permit Center on the second floor of City Hall at 555 Santa Clara Street, describing it as a "one-stop shop" covering building, utility, special event, special use, signs, trees and landscaping, and temporary permits. Applications go through an eTRAKiT portal - and, unusually for 2026, the city also publishes a fax route for immediate issuance.

Verified 2026-09-19 · Source

When you need this permit

  • THE TRIGGER IS BROAD AND THE CITY STATES IT AS ONE SENTENCE: "Whenever a building or structure is constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved or demolished a building permit is required; the project must also comply with the City's commercial zoning regulations."
  • THREE ROUTES TO GET WHAT YOU NEED, in the city's own words: "You can get the information needed to submit a permit application during office hours in one of three ways" - visit in person, "Call the Building Division on (707) 648-4374", or "Print building permit application at this site and fax in to (707) 552-0163 for immediate issuance".
  • PLANNING SUBMISSIONS ARE NOT SELF-SERVICE: "You may submit application and files to Planning by clicking on the appropriate button above. A Planning staff member will contact you to let you know what fees are required prior to application processing." The fee is quoted to you before processing starts, rather than calculated by you at submission.

Required documents

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Fee schedule

Building permit fee basis
The Master Fee Schedule carries as Attachment 4 a "Building Permit - International Code Council Valuation Table". Show full citationThe Master Fee Schedule carries as Attachment 4 a "Building Permit - International Code Council Valuation Table". The schedule marks each fee with its own basis code, and the building-related codes include a valuation-derived flat amount, a valuation-derived hourly rate, plain flat and hourly rates, and a flat-plus-per-kilowatt form used for solar.
Valuation-based, against the International Code Council valuation table.
Whose valuation governsThe schedule states this against valuation-priced items, and does so repeatedly - the phrase appears nine times across the document. So a declared figure operates as a floor, not as the number: declaring low does not by itself lower the fee.
The greater of the value declared by the developer, or the ICC Building Valuation Data figure.
State surcharges collected with the permitThe Master Fee Schedule includes a state SMIP fee code section and a state building permit surcharge fees guide covering SB 1473 fees as separate attachments. Amounts were not transcribed for this record.
Not itemised in this record.
Which adopting instrument the amounts come fromThe consolidated schedule lists a chain of adopting instruments - Resolution No. 19-047 N.C., Resolution 24-154 N.C. and Resolution No. 26-127 N.C. - together with two underlying user fee studies. A figure quoted from an older resolution is stale by at least one revision.
Resolution No. 26-127 N.C. is the most recent fee resolution listed.

Review timeline

Plan review
Not published — contact the department

How long did your Building Permit permit actually take in Vallejo?

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Inspection process

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    NOT PUBLISHED on the pages read for this record

    No inspection booking route, ordered stage sequence, advance-notice requirement or daily cut-off appeared on the Central Permit Center or Building and Zoning pages. The city runs an eTRAKiT portal, which commonly carries inspection scheduling, but that was not opened for this record and nothing is asserted about it here.

Tips

  • THE FRIDAY IS AN ALTERNATING ONE AND THE CITY DOES NOT SAY WHICH - call before travelling on a Friday.
  • LAST CHECK-IN IS 4:15pm, fifteen minutes before the counter closes.
  • THE COUNTER SHUTS 12pm-1pm on every day it is open.

Frequently asked questions

Vallejo requires a building permit for: THE TRIGGER IS BROAD AND THE CITY STATES IT AS ONE SENTENCE: "Whenever a building or structure is constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved or demolished a building permit is required; the project must also comply with the City's commercial zoning regulations."; THREE ROUTES TO GET WHAT YOU NEED, in the city's own words: "You can get the information needed to submit a permit application during office hours in one of three ways" - visit in person, "Call the Building Division on (707) 648-4374", or "Print building permit application at this site and fax in to (707) 552-0163 for immediate issuance".; PLANNING SUBMISSIONS ARE NOT SELF-SERVICE: "You may submit application and files to Planning by clicking on the appropriate button above. A Planning staff member will contact you to let you know what fees are required prior to application processing." The fee is quoted to you before processing starts, rather than calculated by you at submission.. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Vallejo Central Permit Center, Building Division at (707) 648-4522 (Central Permit Center and Building); (707) 648-4374 is given as the Building Division number on the city's Building and Zoning page - see the note below, the two are NOT reconciled here. Code Enforcement 707.648.4469; Planning 707.648.4326; Public Works 707.648.4315; fax 707.552.0163 before starting work.

From the valuation of the work, against the International Code Council valuation table that the Master Fee Schedule carries as an attachment. The valuation used is the greater of the value declared by the developer or the ICC Building Valuation Data figure.

Vallejo does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact City of Vallejo Central Permit Center, Building Division at (707) 648-4522 (Central Permit Center and Building); (707) 648-4374 is given as the Building Division number on the city's Building and Zoning page - see the note below, the two are NOT reconciled here. Code Enforcement 707.648.4469; Planning 707.648.4326; Public Works 707.648.4315; fax 707.552.0163 for current turnaround.

Apply through City of Vallejo Central Permit Center, Building Division at Central Permit Center, 555 Santa Clara Street, Second Floor, Vallejo, CA 94590. Phone: (707) 648-4522 (Central Permit Center and Building); (707) 648-4374 is given as the Building Division number on the city's Building and Zoning page - see the note below, the two are NOT reconciled here. Code Enforcement 707.648.4469; Planning 707.648.4326; Public Works 707.648.4315; fax 707.552.0163, email: building.division@cityofvallejo.net. Office hours: FOUR CONSTRAINTS AND A START DATE, all published together: "Effective Monday, October 6, 2025", "Building & Planning Counter Hours", "Monday-Thursday and every other Friday", "8:30am-4:30pm - Closed 12pm-1pm", "Last check-in at 4:15pm". So the counter runs four and a half days in a fortnight-long cycle, loses an hour at midday, and stops taking arrivals fifteen minutes before it closes. WHICH Friday is the open one is not stated anywhere on the page read for this record, and no anchor date or calendar is published alongside it.. Official information: https://www.cityofvallejo.net/business/central_permit_center.

"Monday-Thursday and every other Friday", "8:30am-4:30pm - Closed 12pm-1pm", with "Last check-in at 4:15pm", effective from Monday, October 6, 2025. Which Friday is the open one is not published on the page, so call (707) 648-4522 before making a Friday trip.

4:15pm, not 4:30pm. The city publishes the closing time as 4:30pm and "Last check-in at 4:15pm" alongside it, so the final quarter of an hour is not available for arriving.

The city publishes a fax route and describes it as immediate: "Print building permit application at this site and fax in to (707) 552-0163 for immediate issuance." That sits alongside the eTRAKiT online portal rather than replacing it.

They are split by division: building.division@cityofvallejo.net for Building, planning@cityofvallejo.net for Planning, code.enforcement@cityofvallejo.net for Code Enforcement, and public.works@cityofvallejo.net for Public Works. The page displays these as obfuscated placeholders; the addresses above are the ones encoded in the page itself.

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