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Cheyenne Wells building permits
Cheyenne Wells, Colorado — as published 2026-08-13.
Reviewed 2026-08-13 · Source
Codes adopted
Permit types & fees
Residential Building Permit
VerifiedRequired for residential construction, additions, and structural work within Cheyenne Wells town limits. Reviewed and approved via Board of Trustees monthly meeting motion after Town Manager inspection/signature. No specific ICC code edition was found published by the town; fee is calculated by structural square footage rather than construction valuation.
Verified 2026-07-23 · Source
Requirements
- Permit application submitted to the Town (Town Manager/Town Clerk Administrator's office)
- Town Manager inspects and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval
- Board of Trustees approves each permit individually by motion at a regular monthly meeting — this is a genuinely distinct approval step from a staff-level administrative permit process used in larger jurisdictions in this corpus
- No specific code edition (IBC/IRC) requirement was found published; no design review or architectural review process was found
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationTown of Cheyenne Wells building permit application, reviewed by the Town Manager and approved by Board of Trustees motion
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026, per Board of Trustees meeting coverage (Kiowa County Press) |
| Structural Square Foot Fee | $0.20 per sq ft | Town of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026 |
Demolition Permit
VerifiedRequired to demolish or remove a residential structure or trailer within Cheyenne Wells town limits, evidenced by multiple named demolition permits approved in Board of Trustees minutes (e.g. 'Tiffany Knudsen - Demolish Home,' 'Dimas Guttierrez - Tear Down Trailer,' 'H&T Properties LLC Remove House').
Verified 2026-07-23 · Source
Requirements
- Permit application submitted to the Town
- Town Manager inspects and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval
- Board of Trustees approves the permit by motion at a regular monthly meeting
Required documents
- RequiredDemolition Permit ApplicationSubmitted to the Town Manager/Town Clerk Administrator's office
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee (applied to demolition permits per town fee resolution; no separate demolition-specific fee line item was found published) | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026; Show full citationHideTown of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026; no distinct demolition fee tier was located, so the general Building Permit Application Fee is the only published figure applicable. CONFIRMED 2026-07-23 against the original signed RES-02-2026 PDF (full 2-page fee schedule read in full: Daily Room Rental, Building Permit Application Fee, Fence/Sidewalk/Driveway, Structural Sq Ft Fee, Burn Permit, Zoning/Animal Permit, animal fees, Peddler's License tiers, Circus/Pool Table/Liquor licenses, water/labor/equipment/court fees) — no demolition-specific line item exists anywhere in the town's complete fee schedule, a verified-negative rather than an unchecked gap. Original Board minutes (e.g. April 14, 2026: 'BUILDING, ANIMAL & PEDDLER PERMITS') further confirm demolition/teardown permits (e.g. Phil and Debbie Knudsen 'Teardown Sheds/Home,' Zane and Anne Galli 'Teardown Carport') are filed and approved under the same general 'Building Permits' agenda category as any other structural permit, corroborating that the general Building Permit Application Fee is the governing figure rather than an assumption. |
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit
VerifiedNo dedicated solar/photovoltaic permit type, fee line, or code reference was found for Cheyenne Wells across any source reviewed for this town -- its own downloadable Building Permit application form, its January 14, 2026 Fee Resolution (as reported in Board of Trustees meeting coverage), and its current Municipal Code Title 15 (Buildings and Construction). A rooftop or ground-mount solar PV installation within town limits would most likely be processed the same way as any other structural project evidenced in this file: submitted to the Town, inspected/signed by the Town Manager, and approved by Board of Trustees motion at a regular monthly meeting, billed under the same flat Building Permit Application Fee plus per-square-foot Structural Square Foot Fee used for the general residential-building-permit entry -- but this is inferred from the town's general permitting pattern, not independently confirmed against a solar-specific record in the town's public minutes.
Verified 2026-07-20 · Source
Requirements
- Permit application submitted to the Town (Town Manager/Town Clerk Administrator's office), same intake process as any other structural project
- Town Manager inspects and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval
- Board of Trustees approves the permit individually by motion at a regular monthly meeting
- No specific code edition, design-review process, or solar-specific requirement was found published by the Town
- Electrical interconnection work is inferred (not verified) to default to Colorado DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations state program, per the same reasoning applied to the electrical-permit gap noted in this file's localAmendments -- no town-run electrical inspection program evidence was found for any trade, including solar
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationTown of Cheyenne Wells building permit application, the only application form found published by the Town for any structural project
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee (applied to solar PV per the Town's general fee resolution; no separate solar-specific fee line item was found published) | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026, per Board of Trustees meeting coverage (Kiowa County Press); Show full citationHideTown of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026, per Board of Trustees meeting coverage (Kiowa County Press); no distinct solar/photovoltaic fee tier was located anywhere in the town's public materials, checked directly on 2026-07-20. Colorado's statewide solar permit fee cap (C.R.S. § 24-48.5-113, HB21-1284: $500 residential / $1,000 commercial) would apply as a ceiling regardless, though Cheyenne Wells' own flat-plus-per-square-foot structure is already well under that ceiling for a typical residential system. |
| Structural Square Foot Fee | $0.20 per sq ft | Town of Cheyenne Wells Fee Resolution effective January 14, 2026; applies to structural work generally -- not confirmed to specifically include or exclude a solar racking/mounting scope |
Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger / EVSE Permit
VerifiedNo dedicated EV charger, EVSE, or electric vehicle charging station permit type, fee line, or code reference was found for Cheyenne Wells across any source reviewed for this town -- its own downloadable Building Permit application form, its January 14, 2026 Fee Resolution (as reported in Board of Trustees meeting coverage), and its current Municipal Code Title 15 (Buildings and Construction). A residential Level 2 EVSE circuit installation would most likely be processed the same way as any other electrical scope evidenced in this file: submitted to the Town, inspected/signed by the Town Manager, and approved by Board of Trustees motion at a regular monthly meeting -- but this is inferred from the town's general permitting pattern (the same inference already applied to the solar-pv-permit entry in this file), not independently confirmed against an EV-specific record in the town's public minutes.
Verified 2026-07-20 · Source
Requirements
- Permit application submitted to the Town (Town Manager/Town Clerk Administrator's office), same intake process as any other structural or electrical project
- Town Manager inspects and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval
- Board of Trustees approves the permit individually by motion at a regular monthly meeting
- No specific code edition, design-review process, or EV-charger-specific requirement was found published by the Town
- Electrical work (including an EVSE circuit) is inferred (not verified) to default to Colorado DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations state program, per the same reasoning already applied to the electrical-permit gap and the solar-pv-permit entry in this file -- no town-run electrical inspection program evidence was found for any trade
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationTown of Cheyenne Wells building permit application, the only application form found published by the Town for any structural or electrical project
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee (applied to EV charger/EVSE installs per the Town's general fee resolution; no separate EV-specific fee line item was found published) | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule, effective January 14, 2026 (published as a legal notice in the Kiowa County Independent, 2/10/2026) -- independently confirmed… Show full citationHideTown of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule, effective January 14, 2026 (published as a legal notice in the Kiowa County Independent, 2/10/2026) -- independently confirmed by direct fetch of the legal notice itself on 2026-07-20, not merely inferred from secondary meeting coverage. No distinct EV charger/EVSE or electrical-specific fee tier appears anywhere in the resolution's full fee schedule (also checked directly); the general Building Permit Application Fee is the only applicable governing figure. |
Sign Permit
VerifiedRESEARCHED 2026-08-13: no standalone sign ordinance, sign permit application, sign-specific fee, or dimensional/height standard was found for Cheyenne Wells anywhere in this review -- a genuinely chased gap, not an unexamined assumption. The Town's currently self-hosted Municipal Code was downloaded and extracted in full via browser-header curl plus antiword text extraction (municipal_code.doc, a 1989 Book Publishing Co. codification): Title 17 'ZONING' is explicitly labeled '(RESERVED)' with zero codified text, and no 'sign' definition or sign-regulation section appears anywhere else in the document's 17 Titles. The Town's complete 2026 General Fee Schedule (Resolution #02-2026, previously read in full and re-checked here) has no sign-specific line item among its full fee list (Building Permit Application Fee, Fence/Sidewalk/Driveway, Structural Sq Ft Fee, Zoning/Animal Permit Application Fee, Burn Permit, Peddler's License, etc.). The Town's current 2026 Building Permit Application form (downloaded and read in full as a scanned PDF, 2026-08-13) has no sign-specific field or checkbox -- only generic 'INTENDED USE OF STRUCTURE' and 'LAND IS PRESENTLY ZONED' fields that could technically capture a sign as a structure. A genuinely new and unresolved fact was found: the Town's own hearing notice (published via Kiowa County Press) confirms the Board of Trustees held a public hearing on Monday, September 9, 2024 on 'ORDINANCE #285-2024 "ZONING ORDINANCE"' -- this is the most likely vehicle by which any sign standard would now be codified, and is plausibly the same 'new zoning ordinance' referenced in March 2025 Board of Trustees minutes (storage-unit criteria and setbacks, per this file's existing tipsAndGotchas). However, Ordinance #285-2024's full text could not be located anywhere in this review: it does not appear on the Town's current Resources page document list (checked directly 2026-08-13), and no adopted/published version was found on Kiowa County Press beyond the September 2024 hearing notice itself. Given Cheyenne Wells' extremely small scale (758 residents, no dedicated Building or Planning Division), a sign structure would most likely be processed as any other 'structure' under the general Building Permit Application -- consistent with the inference already used for this file's solar-pv-permit and ev-charger-permit entries -- but this is inferred from the Town's general permitting pattern, not confirmed against a sign-specific record, and the unresolved status of Ordinance #285-2024 leaves genuine doubt about whether a dedicated sign standard now exists that this review simply could not access.
Verified 2026-08-13 · Source
Requirements
- No standalone sign permit application, sign-specific fee, sign code chapter, or dimensional/height standard was found published anywhere in the Town's currently codified Municipal Code (Title 17 Zoning is explicitly '(RESERVED)', confirmed via full-text extraction 2026-08-13) or its 2026 General Fee Schedule (Resolution #02-2026, read in full)
- A sign would most likely be processed as a 'structure' under the general Building Permit Application -- same Town Manager inspection prior to Board of Trustees motion approval used for every other Cheyenne Wells permit type in this file -- but this is inferred from the Town's documented general pattern, not independently confirmed against a sign-specific record
- The Town's current Building Permit Application form (2026 version, read in full) has no sign-specific field; it includes only generic 'INTENDED USE OF STRUCTURE' and 'LAND IS PRESENTLY ZONED' fields that could capture a sign structure
- A Zoning Ordinance (#285-2024), subject to a September 9, 2024 Board of Trustees public hearing per the Town's own hearing notice, may contain sign-specific standards adopted after the Town's 2003-vintage codified Municipal Code -- but its full text was not located anywhere in this review (not on the Town's Resources document list, not republished by Kiowa County Press beyond the hearing notice)
- Confirm directly with the Town Clerk Administrator (719-767-5865, dktcw@rebeltec.net) whether a permit is required at all and whether Ordinance #285-2024 established any sign-specific standard, since no published source resolves this
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationTown of Cheyenne Wells building permit application, the only application form found published by the Town for any structural project; no sign-specific form or field exists
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee (applied to a sign structure per the Town's general fee resolution, if a permit is required at all; no separate sign-specific fee line item was found published) | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule, checked in full 2026-08-13 -- no sign-specific line item exists anywhere in the resolution's complete fee schedule. |
| Zoning/Animal Permit Application Fee (may apply, not confirmed) | $35.00 ("Additional Fees May Apply" per the resolution's own text) | This fee line combines zoning and animal-control permitting in a single item. Show full citationHideThis fee line combines zoning and animal-control permitting in a single item. Because a sign could be considered a zoning matter, this fee may apply to a sign application in addition to (or instead of) the Building Permit Application Fee, but the Town's fee resolution does not specify which permit types trigger it -- not confirmed, flagged honestly rather than assumed either way. |
Fire Sprinkler and Fire Alarm System Permit
VerifiedColorado is home-rule with no statewide fire-code floor, so which authority governs fire sprinkler/alarm work in Cheyenne Wells had to be independently confirmed rather than assumed. RESEARCHED 2026-08-13: Cheyenne Wells is served by the Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection District #1 (also listed as 'Cheyenne County No. 1 Fire Protection District' on Cheyenne County's own districts page, co.cheyenne.co.us/districts.html, confirmed live 2026-08-13) -- a legally separate special district from the Town of Cheyenne Wells municipal government, established in 1958 as successor to the Cheyenne Wells Hose Company #1 (organized 1923), covering approximately 900 square miles and about 1,300 residents across the eastern part of the county. The District's own website (cheyennewellsfire.com, checked in full 2026-08-13) publishes no Fire Prevention, plan-review, permit, or inspection section of any kind -- its content is limited to emergency-response information, service-area description, and department history. No fire-suppression or fire-alarm code (no adopted International Fire Code edition, no NFPA 13/72 adoption) is codified anywhere in the Town's own Municipal Code: Title 15 (Buildings and Construction) contains only Chapter 15.04 (Building Code -- the old 1961 Uniform Building Code Short Form, per this file's existing codesAdopted entry) and Chapter 15.08 (Electrical Code); the only fire-adjacent provision anywhere in the code is Chapter 8.12 ('Inflammable Liquids,' Ord. 151, 1980), which narrowly regulates underground fuel-tank storage and prohibits certain hazardous occupancies (e.g., dry cleaning) -- it is not a fire-suppression or fire-alarm-system code, and Title 17 Zoning (which might otherwise carry fire-district overlay provisions) is separately confirmed '(RESERVED)' in this same document. One statewide requirement was directly confirmed to apply in Cheyenne Wells regardless of local jurisdiction: Colorado's Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) administers a mandatory statewide Fire Suppression System Contractor and Sprinkler Fitter Registration program under 8 CCR 1507-11 -- any company installing or maintaining a fire suppression system, and any individual sprinkler fitter, must be registered with DFPC before performing that work anywhere in Colorado, independent of whether the local jurisdiction has its own fire marshal or permitting process. No local Cheyenne Wells fire-sprinkler/alarm plan-review, permit, or fee process was located anywhere in this review; work would most likely be filed under the Town's general Building Permit Application (Town Manager inspection prior to Board of Trustees motion approval, per this file's established general pattern), but this is inferred, not confirmed against a fire-suppression-specific record.
Verified 2026-08-13 · Source
Requirements
- Fire protection in Cheyenne Wells is provided by the Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection District #1 (also listed as 'Cheyenne County No. 1 Fire Protection District' on the county's own districts page) -- a legally separate special district from the Town, NOT a town department -- established 1958, successor to the Cheyenne Wells Hose Company #1 (organized 1923), covering approximately 900 square miles and about 1,300 residents
- No standalone fire sprinkler or fire alarm permit application, fee schedule, or plan-review process was found published by either the Town of Cheyenne Wells or the Fire Protection District as of this research pass (2026-08-13) -- the District's own website (cheyennewellsfire.com) was checked in full and contains no Prevention, Plan Review, Permits, or Inspections section
- No fire-suppression or fire-alarm code (no adopted IFC edition, no NFPA 13/72 adoption) is codified anywhere in the Town's own Municipal Code Title 15 (Buildings and Construction, Chapters 15.04 and 15.08 only, confirmed via full-text extraction 2026-08-13) -- the code's only fire-adjacent provision, Chapter 8.12 'Inflammable Liquids' (Ord. 151, 1980), narrowly regulates underground fuel storage and is not a fire-suppression/alarm code
- Anyone installing or maintaining a fire suppression (sprinkler) system anywhere in Colorado, including Cheyenne Wells, must be registered with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) as a Fire Suppression System Contractor, and any individual sprinkler fitter must be separately registered with DFPC as a Sprinkler Fitter (8 CCR 1507-11, Sections 3 and 5) -- a mandatory statewide licensing requirement independent of local permitting authority
- If sprinkler/alarm work accompanies new construction, it would most likely be filed under the Town's general Building Permit Application (Town Manager inspection prior to Board of Trustees motion approval), consistent with this file's established general pattern for any scope not separately itemized by the Town -- but this is inferred, not confirmed against a fire-suppression-specific record
- Contact the Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection District directly and the Town Clerk Administrator (719-767-5865, dktcw@rebeltec.net) to confirm current practice for any fire sprinkler or alarm installation, since no standalone process, application, or fee for this scenario is published anywhere in either entity's available materials
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationNo fire-sprinkler/alarm-specific field exists; if sprinkler/alarm work is part of new construction it would most likely be captured under the Town's general Building Permit Application, the same as any other scope not separately itemized by the Town
- OptionalNone published specifically for fire sprinkler/alarm systems by the Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection DistrictNo standalone fire sprinkler/alarm plan-review application, checklist, or fee schedule was located on the District's website as of this research pass (2026-08-13). Contact the District directly.
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection District plan review / inspection fee | Genuinely unpublished -- no fee schedule of any kind is published by the Cheyenne Wells Fire Protection District. Confirm directly with the District. | |
| Town of Cheyenne Wells Building Permit Application Fee (structural portion, if sprinkler/alarm work is part of new construction) | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule, checked in full 2026-08-13 -- no fire-sprinkler-specific line item exists anywhere in the Town's complete fee schedule; Show full citationHideTown of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule, checked in full 2026-08-13 -- no fire-sprinkler-specific line item exists anywhere in the Town's complete fee schedule; would be billed under the general Building Permit fee if applicable at all, separate from any fee the Fire Protection District itself may charge. |
Change of Use Permit
VerifiedRESEARCHED 2026-08-13: Cheyenne Wells has no standalone change-of-use permit application or fee -- change of use is one of the fields captured directly on the Town's own general Building Permit Application, confirmed via a direct read of the Town's current 2026 Building Permit form (downloaded from the Town's own document host, a scanned image PDF read in full). The form's fields include, verbatim: 'LAND IS PRESENTLY ZONED,' 'INTENDED USE OF STRUCTURE,' 'CLASS OF WORK: NEW__ADDITION__ALTERATION__REPAIR__MOVE__TEAR DOWN__,' 'CHANGING USE FROM,' and 'CHANGING USE TO' -- i.e., a change of use is processed as part of the same single combined form used for every other permit type in this file, not a separate application. It follows the Town's standard process: Town Manager inspection and signature, then Board of Trustees approval by motion at a regular monthly meeting, billed at the same $25.00 Building Permit Application Fee used for other work (per Resolution #02-2026). Whether the Town's separate $35.00 'Zoning/Animal Permit Application Fee' (also per Resolution #02-2026, whose own text notes 'Additional Fees May Apply') is also charged for a change-of-use filing specifically is NOT stated anywhere in the fee resolution and is not assumed either way. A genuine, unresolved gap remains on the substantive zoning side: the Town's currently codified Municipal Code Title 17 (Zoning) is explicitly '(RESERVED)' -- confirmed via full-text extraction of municipal_code.doc 2026-08-13 -- so there is no published zoning-use table to check a proposed new use against. A Zoning Ordinance (#285-2024) was the subject of a September 9, 2024 Board of Trustees public hearing per the Town's own hearing notice, and may have since established a use table, conditional-use process, or other change-of-use standard, but its full text was not located anywhere in this review.
Verified 2026-08-13 · Source
Requirements
- Permit application submitted on the Town's combined Building Permit Application, which includes dedicated 'LAND IS PRESENTLY ZONED,' 'CHANGING USE FROM,' and 'CHANGING USE TO' fields (2026 Building Permit form, downloaded from the Town's own document host and read in full 2026-08-13)
- Town Manager inspects and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval, the same as any other Cheyenne Wells building permit
- Board of Trustees approves the permit individually by motion at a regular monthly meeting
- No specific zoning-district use table, use matrix, or code edition governing permitted/prohibited uses was found published by the Town -- Municipal Code Title 17 (Zoning) is explicitly labeled '(RESERVED)' in the Town's currently self-hosted code document (a 1989 Book Publishing Co. codification, downloaded and extracted in full 2026-08-13), so there is no published zoning-use table to check a proposed use against
- A separate Zoning Ordinance (#285-2024) was the subject of a September 9, 2024 Board of Trustees public hearing, described in the Town's own hearing notice only as 'ZONING ORDINANCE' -- this ordinance's full text was not located anywhere in this review (not on the Resources page's current document list, not republished by Kiowa County Press beyond the hearing notice itself), so whether it establishes a formal use table, conditional-use process, or additional change-of-use requirement is unresolved
Required documents
- RequiredBuilding Permit ApplicationTown of Cheyenne Wells 2026 building permit application; includes dedicated 'CHANGING USE FROM' and 'CHANGING USE TO' fields alongside the standard construction-scope fields, confirmed by direct read of the current form 2026-08-13
Fee schedule
| Fee type | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Building Permit Application Fee | $25.00 | Town of Cheyenne Wells Resolution #02-2026, 2026 General Fee Schedule; applies to a change-of-use filing the same as any other Building Permit application, since the Town publishes only one combined form/fee structure for all permit types. |
| Structural Square Foot Fee (if the change of use is accompanied by structural/floor-area work) | $0.20 per sq ft | Applies only if construction accompanies the change of use; a pure change of use with no construction scope may not trigger this fee -- not explicitly addressed in the Town's fee resolution. |
| Zoning/Animal Permit Application Fee (may apply, not confirmed) | $35.00 ("Additional Fees May Apply" per the resolution's own text) | A change of use is inherently a zoning determination, so this separate fee line may also apply, but Resolution #02-2026 does not specify which permit types trigger it. Confirm directly with the Town Clerk Administrator before applying rather than assuming either way. |
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