Walsh building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Walsh, Colorado.
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Building department
- Address
- Walsh Town Hall, Walsh, CO 81090
- Phone
- 719-324-5411
- Office hours
- Not published on the Town's website as of this review; contact Walsh Town Hall at 719-324-5411. Town Clerk is Donna Packard Dawson; Town Superintendent is Dennis Carlson, per the Town Admin (Board/Staff) page.
- Website
- Official site
Codes adopted
Colorado has no statewide-mandated building code edition. Under the Colorado Constitution's home-rule provisions (art. XX, home rule for municipalities since 1902; home rule for counties since 1970), building codes and zoning are an enumerated home-rule charter power, so cities and counties adopt and amend their own construction codes independently — predominantly the I-Codes, with editions and local amendments varying by jurisdiction. The one statewide floor is for energy: HB22-1362 (2022) created the Energy Code Board (jointly appointed by the Colorado Energy Office and the Department of Local Affairs) and requires that, on or after July 1, 2023 and before July 1, 2026, any municipality or county that adopts or updates a building code must adopt and enforce an energy code achieving performance equivalent to or better than the 2021 IECC together with the board's Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code (which includes electric-ready, EV-ready, and solar-ready provisions); from July 1, 2026 onward the floor shifts to the board's Model Low Energy and Carbon Code or an equivalent. Electrical and plumbing permitting defaults to the Colorado State Electrical Board and State Plumbing Board (within DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations) — the state issues permits and inspects statewide except in counties/jurisdictions that operate their own certified Electrical or Plumbing Inspection Program, in which case the local program has authority instead. Always confirm the currently adopted code edition, local amendments, and inspection authority (state board vs. local program) with the specific jurisdiction before submitting plans.
- NONE — no evidence was found anywhere on the Town of Walsh's official website (townofwalsh.colorado.gov), including its dedicated Permits page (town-admin/permits) and Town Admin/Board page, of any adopted IBC, IRC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, or NEC edition, or any other model building code. The Permits page describes the Building Permit and Mobile Home Permit processes entirely in terms of Board of Trustees approval, lot-dimension/setback rules, and a flat filing fee — with no reference to a technical code-compliance plan review of any kind.
- This is consistent with the precedent pattern already in this corpus for a very small Colorado statutory town with a genuine but minimal permitting process (Town of Sedgwick, Sedgwick County, CO — sedgwick-town.json), where a real, town-branded, Board/Zoning-Administrator-reviewed permit process exists without any adopted model building code.
Permit types & fees
Building Permit (Structures, Carports, Fences, and Other Construction)
Required for any structure built within Town of Walsh limits, including buildings, carports, and fences. Reviewed and approved by the Town's Board of Trustees at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting (first Monday after the 10th of each month), after a completed application is submitted to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent. No model building code (IBC/IRC or otherwise) has been adopted by the Town; this is a Board-approval process rather than a technical code-compliance plan review.
Mobile Home Permit (Placement or Modification)
Required for the placement or modification of any mobile home within Town of Walsh limits. Reviewed and approved by the Board of Trustees at the same monthly meeting cycle as the general Building Permit. Governed by the Town's own lot-size and setback standards published directly on its downloadable Mobile Home Permit application form, rather than any adopted model building code.
Solar PV Installation (Building Permit)
The Town of Walsh has no dedicated solar-PV application, fee, or standard — a rooftop or ground-mount solar installation is a 'structure built within town' and is therefore billed and reviewed under the Town's single general Building Permit process (Board of Trustees approval, $15.00 flat filing fee) that already covers buildings, carports, and fences (see residential-building-permit). No IBC/IRC or NEC-based technical plan review exists at the town level, and the Town's Permits page is silent on electrical work of any kind, including solar interconnection. Colorado's statewide solar-permit-fee cap (C.R.S. § 24-48.5-113, enacted by HB21-1284 — $500 residential/$1,000 nonresidential aggregate fee cap) applies as a legal backstop but does not change the practical process here, since Walsh's flat $15 fee is already far below the cap.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station / EVSE Permit
The Town of Walsh has no dedicated EV charger/EVSE permit, application, or fee, and its official Permits page (which lists only Burn Permit, Building Permit, and Mobile Home Permit) is entirely silent on electrical work of any kind, including EV charging equipment -- the same gap already documented for solar PV interconnection on this file's solar-pv-permit entry. If the EV charger installation involves a new structure (e.g., a carport or shelter to house the charger), that would fall under the Town's single general Building Permit process ($15.00 flat filing fee, Board of Trustees approval at its monthly meeting) the same way solar installations are treated as 'any structure built within town.' A standalone wall-mounted charger with no new structure has no identified TOWN-level permitting mechanism -- but because Walsh has no local electrical inspection program at all (its Permits page lists no electrical permit of any kind), the electrical/EVSE-circuit work itself falls under the Colorado State Electrical Board (DORA/DPO)'s statewide electrical permit and fee schedule, the same state fallback mechanism that applies to all electrical work in jurisdictions without a local electrical inspector. Walsh's population (roughly 500) is far below the 10,000-person threshold that triggers 'covered municipality' status under Colorado's HB24-1173 (Electric Vehicle Charging System Permits Act, effective 8/7/2024), so that statute's mandatory adoption and 3-business-day decision-notification requirements do not apply here.
New residential construction activity
New privately-owned residential construction onlyHousing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).
- Latest month (2026-05)
- No data reported
- Trailing 12 months
- No data reported
- Year to date (2026 YTD)
- No data reported
- Full year 2025
- 0units
0 buildings · $0 valuation
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-05 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Colorado building activity
Tips & gotchas
- The Town of Walsh has a genuine, if minimal, permitting process — independently re-verified directly from the Town's live official website (townofwalsh.colorado.gov, a Drupal 10 / Colorado state web portal site) via full-browser-header curl, not merely taken from a prior summary at face value. This clears this corpus's zero-tolerance bar as a minimal-but-real process, following the same pattern as the Town of Sedgwick, CO (sedgwick-town.json) precedent in this corpus.
- Walsh has NOT adopted the IBC, IRC, or any other model building code for general construction. No reference to any code edition was found anywhere on the Town's Permits page, Town Admin page, or downloadable Mobile Home Permit PDF form. All permitting is a Board of Trustees governmental-approval process, not a technical code-compliance plan review.
- Two distinct, genuinely evidenced permit types exist: the general Building Permit ($15 flat fee, covers buildings/carports/fences/other structures) and the Mobile Home Permit ($15 flat fee, its own 3,500 sq ft minimum lot size and 10/15/7-foot setback standards, with a dedicated downloadable PDF application form). A third permit, the Burn Permit (no charge, requires Baca County Sheriff notification), also exists on the same page but is a fire/burning-activity permit, not a structure permit, and is intentionally NOT modeled as a permitType in this file.
- Both the Building Permit and Mobile Home Permit require Board of Trustees approval at a regularly scheduled meeting, held the first Monday after the 10th of each month — this monthly cadence is the practical timing constraint applicants should plan around, even though the Town does not publish it as a formal review-timeline SLA.
- Colorado HB22-1362 does not currently bind Walsh: the statute's energy-code requirement is triggered only for municipalities/counties THAT UPDATE A BUILDING CODE, and Walsh has no building code to update. This is a structural non-applicability, not a population-based exemption — no population-based HB22-1362 exemption was found or assumed for Walsh, and the never-enacted SB25-141 (a distinct, separate bill) is not invoked here.
- No evidence of a Town-administered electrical or plumbing permit program was found; the Town's Permits page is silent on both trades (unlike Sedgwick's own form, which explicitly flags them '(State Permit Required)'). This file does not include electrical-permit or plumbing-permit types absent published evidence, per this corpus's no-padding policy — this is an honest information gap in the Town's own public materials, not a corpus omission.
- No online permitting portal exists — applications are submitted in person or by phone/contact to Walsh Town Hall (719-324-5411) to the Town Clerk (Donna Packard Dawson) or Town Superintendent (Dennis Carlson). The Mobile Home Permit has a dedicated downloadable PDF form; the general Building Permit does not have an equivalent standalone form published on the site.
- Walsh, CO is a statutory town of population 543 (2020 Census) in Baca County — a brand-new county for this corpus, alongside the county seat Springfield, CO (springfield-co.json), which shares the same countyFips (08009).