Building Permit (Structures, Carports, Fences, and Other Construction) — Walsh, Colorado · Requirements sheet
Verified 2026-08-02 · Source: https://townofwalsh.colorado.gov/town-admin/permits
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Building Permit (Structures, Carports, Fences, and Other Construction) in Walsh, Colorado
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.
Verified 2026-08-02 · Source
When you need this permit
- Completed building permit application submitted to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent prior to beginning construction
- Board of Trustees approval required at a regularly scheduled meeting (held the first Monday after the 10th of each month)
- Applies to any structure built within town limits, including buildings, carports, and fences
- $15.00 filing fee due with application
- No distinct commercial-building-permit or tenant-improvement (TI) permit exists — a commercial structure, a new commercial interior build-out, or an interior alteration to an existing commercial space uses this identical Building Permit process and $15.00 flat fee, per the Town's own generic 'any structure built within town' language
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Inspection process
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Board of Trustees Review
Application reviewed and approved (or denied) by the Town's Board of Trustees at a regularly scheduled monthly meeting; no separate technical/code-compliance inspection process is published
Tips
- Walsh has NOT adopted the IBC, IRC, or any other model building code — there is no technical plan review. Approval is granted (or denied) by the Board of Trustees as a governmental body at its monthly meeting, so timing your application ahead of the first-Monday-after-the-10th meeting date is the key practical step, not preparing a code-compliance plan set.
- Submit your application to the Town Clerk or Town Superintendent well before the meeting date you're targeting, since the Town does not publish a submittal deadline relative to the meeting — call Walsh Town Hall (719-324-5411) to confirm cutoff timing directly.
- The $15 filing fee is flat regardless of project scope or valuation — this is a minimal-formality, small-town process, not a fee schedule scaled to project size.
- Walsh has no distinct commercial-building-permit or tenant-improvement permit: the Town's official Permits page describes the Building Permit in single, generic terms — 'Any structure built within town, i.e. buildings, carports, fences and etc.' — with no residential/commercial distinction and no separate commercial application, fee tier, or approval track anywhere on the Town's website. There is no downloadable Building Permit form (unlike the Mobile Home Permit's PDF) to check for a 'Zoned: Residential/Commercial' field one way or the other, but the plain page text does not carve out or exclude commercial construction, and the Town's Business Directory page (listed in its site navigation) confirms commercial activity exists in town, including a resident-owned cooperative grocery store per Baca County's own page on Walsh. Separately, Baca County itself — the only other governmental authority with jurisdiction over the area — does not administer building permits at all: a letter on Baca County Board of Commissioners letterhead (dated February 22, 2017, signed by Commissioners Ausmus, Dawson, and Butler) states, 'Baca County has no zoning or land use regulations at the current time, except regulations regarding septic tanks, septic fields, and leach lines. Baca County does not require building permits or land use permits for the construction.' This rules out a county-level or regional commercial-building-permit fallback for Walsh; the Town's single generic Building Permit is the only building-permit mechanism of any kind serving this location.
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