Residential Building Permit — Cheyenne Wells, Colorado · Requirements sheet
Verified 2026-07-23 · Source: https://kiowacountypress.net/content/town-cheyenne-wells-council-meeting-minutes-august-12-2025
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Residential Building Permit in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado
Required 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
When you need this permit
- 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 — a distinct approval step from the staff-level administrative permit process used in larger jurisdictions
- No specific code edition (IBC/IRC) requirement was found published; no design review or architectural review process was found
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Town Manager Inspection
Town Manager inspects the project and signs the permit prior to Board of Trustees approval
Tips
- Cheyenne Wells' fee structure is a genuine flat/per-square-foot model, not a valuation-based sliding scale — budget $25 flat plus $0.20/sq ft of structural area.
- Permits are approved individually by Board of Trustees motion at the town's regular monthly meeting, so plan submission timing around the monthly meeting calendar rather than expecting rolling staff-level approval.
- COMMERCIAL/BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION: Cheyenne Wells has NO separate commercial building-permit process, application form, or fee tier — commercial and business construction runs through this same single Building Permit process (Town Manager inspection/signature, Board of Trustees approval by motion, $25 application fee + $0.20/sq ft structural fee). This is a confirmed absence, not a gap: (1) the town's complete 2026 General Fee Schedule (RES-02-2026, original signed PDF) contains no commercial or valuation-based fee line item of any kind; (2) the town publishes exactly one Building Permit application form for all project types; (3) Board of Trustees minutes show business-entity applicants processed identically under the same 'Building Permits' agenda item as homeowners — e.g. 'H&T Properties LLC Remove House,' 'On Point/Bill Lowe — New Home/Garage' (March 11, 2025), a utility phone-line install permit, and 'Fred & Carla Wyler — Wood Building' (June 9, 2026) — never a separately tracked commercial category; (4) Cheyenne County's Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance (2022) states expressly that it covers 'the unincorporated areas of Cheyenne County,' so county commercial zoning does not govern inside Cheyenne Wells town limits — the county's Commercial Development Policies in fact push commercial growth to locate 'around or within the existing towns or communities' of Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, and Arapahoe.
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