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 the last verification; 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 — the Town of Walsh's official website (townofwalsh.colorado.gov), including its dedicated Permits page (town-admin/permits) and Town Admin/Board page, shows no evidence of any adopted IBC, IRC, IPC, IMC, IFGC,… Show full textShow less
NONE — the Town of Walsh's official website (townofwalsh.colorado.gov), including its dedicated Permits page (town-admin/permits) and Town Admin/Board page, shows no evidence 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 pattern — a genuine but minimal permitting process without any adopted model building code — also occurs in other very small Colorado statutory towns (e.g., the Town of Sedgwick, Sedgwick County, CO).
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.
$15.00Building Permit (Commercial Construction and Tenant Improvements)
The Town of Walsh has no distinct commercial-building-permit or tenant-improvement product. Its official Permits page describes the single Building Permit generically as covering 'any structure built within town, i.e. buildings, carports, fences and etc.,' with no residential/commercial split, and a new commercial structure, a commercial addition, or an interior remodel of an existing commercial space is submitted through that same process: a completed application to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent, approval by the Board of Trustees at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting (first Monday after the 10th), and the same $15.00 flat filing fee. Walsh has adopted no IBC or other model building code, so there is no code-edition-based plan review track for commercial occupancies distinct from the Board's governmental-approval process used for any other structure.
$15.00Mobile 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.
$15.00Solar 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.
$15.00Electric 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 documented on the 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.
From$90valuation-basedSign Permit — No Dedicated Sign Ordinance (General Building Permit Applies)
The Town of Walsh has no dedicated sign ordinance, sign-specific application, fee, or size/setback standard -- its official Permits page (which lists only Burn Permit, Building Permit, and Mobile Home Permit) and the Town's full site map (Town Admin, Public Safety, Services, Facilities, Community, Links sections) contain no zoning, planning, or sign-specific page of any kind. A sign erected within town limits falls, at most, under the Town's single general Building Permit process as 'any structure built within town, i.e. buildings, carports, fences and etc.' -- the same fallback documented for solar PV and EV charging installations. Walsh has a genuinely active small commercial base (roughly 35 businesses per the Town's own Business Directory page, including a grocery store, bank, funeral home, and farm-implement dealer, each of which visibly operates with exterior signage), so this is a confirmed absence of a distinct sign-permit process.
$15.00Fire Sprinkler / Fire Alarm Permit — No Local Program Published
The Town of Walsh is served by its own Walsh Fire Department (400 North Kansas Street, Fire Chief James Forgey), a town-operated, all-volunteer department covering Walsh and the eastern half of Baca County -- not a separately incorporated fire protection district. The Department's official page (townofwalsh.colorado.gov/public-safety/walsh-fire-department) covers only the Department's location, coverage area, and volunteer-recruitment process, with zero mention of a fire sprinkler permit, fire alarm permit, plan review, fee schedule, or any adopted fire code (IFC or otherwise). The Town's official Permits page likewise lists only Burn Permit, Building Permit, and Mobile Home Permit -- no fire-sprinkler or fire-alarm permit of any kind. This mirrors a common rural-Colorado pattern (e.g., Wet Mountain Fire Protection District, serving Silver Cliff/Westcliffe, Custer County): a fire department/district that publishes no permit or fee process online.
See fee scheduleChange of Use Permit — No Zoning Ordinance Exists (Confirmed Absence)
The Town of Walsh has adopted no zoning ordinance and has no Zoning Administrator, Planning Commission, or Board of Adjustment -- the Town's entire government consists of six elected Trustees, a Mayor, a Town Clerk, and a Town Superintendent (per the Town Admin/Board page; see localAmendments). Because a change-of-use permit is, by definition, a zoning/occupancy-classification review mechanism, and Walsh has no zoning code or use-classification system of any kind to trigger such a review, no change-of-use permit process exists at the town level. Baca County -- the only other governmental authority over this location -- likewise has no zoning or land-use regulations, per the Baca County Board of Commissioners' 2/22/2017 letter ('Baca County has no zoning or land use regulations at the current time, except regulations regarding septic tanks, septic fields, and leach lines'), ruling out a county-level change-of-use fallback. A project that also involves physical construction or alteration of a structure would still require the Town's general Building Permit ($15.00 flat fee, Board of Trustees approval), but a pure change of occupancy/use with no physical alteration has no identified permitting requirement of any kind in Walsh.
See fee schedule
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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 (2026-07)
- 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), 2026-07 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, documented on the Town's official website (townofwalsh.colorado.gov) — the same minimal-but-real pattern as the Town of Sedgwick, CO.
- Walsh has NOT adopted the IBC, IRC, or any other model building code for general construction. No reference to any code edition appears 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 record.
- 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 applies or is assumed for Walsh, and the never-enacted SB25-141 (a distinct, separate bill) is not invoked here.
- There is no evidence of a Town-administered electrical or plumbing permit program; the Town's Permits page is silent on both trades (unlike Sedgwick's own form, which explicitly flags them '(State Permit Required)'). This record does not include electrical-permit or plumbing-permit types absent published evidence — an information gap in the Town's own public materials.
- 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, alongside the county seat Springfield, CO, which shares the same countyFips (08009).
- No distinct commercial-building-permit or tenant-improvement (TI) permit exists in Walsh — confirmed absence, documented as an annotation on the residential-building-permit entry. The Town's single generic Building Permit ($15 flat fee, Board of Trustees approval) covers commercial construction the same as any other structure, and Baca County (the surrounding county) administers no building permits or zoning of any kind, per a 2017 letter on Baca County Board of Commissioners letterhead, so there is no county-level or regional building-department fallback either.