Sign Permit in Calhan, Colorado

Calhan requires a sign permit for: Apply through Pikes Peak Regional Building Department (PPRBD), 719-327-2880, not the Town of Calhan, consistent with PPRBD's administration of all Calhan building permits as of July 1, 2026; No Calhan zoning ordinance governs sign size, height, setback, or placement — confirmed via full-text review of Calhan Municipal Code Chapter 15 (Land Use) and Chapter 18 ('Zoning'), neither of which contains a sign-standards section; Electrical connection for an illuminated sign must be separately permitted; electrical contractors working within PPRBD's jurisdiction must be PPRBD-licensed or registered, per the Commercial Plan Review packet; Structural attachment/footing details for the sign should be submitted with the PPRBD application. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 719-347-2586 before starting work.

In Calhan, the published Sign Permit Fee (Base Fee) is: $30.00. Additional published fees: Sign Inspections beyond the first inspection — $25.00. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Calhan does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 719-347-2586 for current turnaround.

You'll need: PPRBD Sign Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Calhan requires 1 inspection(s) for a sign permit, in order: Sign Inspection. Schedule each through Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) (719-347-2586).

Apply through Town of Calhan Public Works Department (permits issued through the Town Clerk's office) at 556 Colorado Avenue, P.O. Box 236, Calhan, CO 80808-0236. Phone: 719-347-2586, email: townclerk@calhan.co. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM MT. Fax: 719-347-2581. The Town Clerk (Cindy Tompkins) handles day-to-day building permit issuance and business licensing; the Public Works Department (created under Calhan Municipal Code 6.01.010) holds oversight of the building permit and inspection program under the Public Works Director.. Official information: https://www.calhan.co/services/building_code_permits.php.

Calhan, Colorado has adopted: Pikes Peak Regional Building Code (PPRBC), 2023 Edition, 2nd Printing, as amended, together with Appendix A and Appendix B, as published by Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, 2880 International Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80910 — adopted by reference as the Town of Calhan Building Code under Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01.020, 'and all secondary codes duly described or referenced therein.' This is the CURRENT governing code, adopted via an emergency ordinance whose text (Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01, Section 16 'Emergency Clause') states the provisions 'must be effective prior to July 1, 2026 in order to limit the excessively burdensome energy code requirements that will increase the costs of development in the Town' — i.e. Calhan deliberately moved off standalone 2018-cycle ICC codes and onto the PPRBC bundle (which itself packages current-cycle IBC/IRC/IMC/IPC/IFGC/IECC/NEC secondary codes) specifically to get ahead of the statewide HB22-1362 energy-code floor before it tightened further on 7/1/2026.; Building Code Amendments (Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 6.01.040): RBC112 (Dangerous Buildings) is deleted in its entirety; RBC312 (Enumeration Code) is deleted in its entirety.; Permits, permit fees, and inspections are governed by Sections RBC105, RBC108, and RBC109 of the (PPRBC) Building Code per Calhan Municipal Code Sec. 15.08.020.K.1, as repealed and reenacted by the same emergency ordinance.; SUPERSEDED (repealed in their entirety by the same ordinance, Sections 6-14, but historically the town's prior locally-adopted 2018-cycle code suite, still referenced on the town's own website/permit-program page as of this review): International Building Code 2018 (former Calhan Municipal Code Article 5); International Mechanical Code 2018 (former Article 6); International Fire Code 2018 (former Article 7 — Article 7/Fire Code was NOT listed among the repealed articles in the ordinance's Sections 6-14 and its current status is unresolved, see tipsAndGotchas); National Electrical Code 2020 (former Article 8, repealed); International Plumbing Code 2018 (former Article 9, repealed); International Energy Conservation Code 2018 (former Article 10, repealed); International Residential Code 2018 (former Article 11, repealed) — this article's amendment schedule included Calhan's own local Climatic/Geographic Design Criteria table (30 psf ground snow load, 115 mph wind speed no topo effects, Seismic Design Category B, Severe weathering, 30-inch frost depth, slight-to-moderate termite, winter design temp 1F, ice barrier underlayment required, air freezing index 1,000, mean annual temp 45F) and several plumbing/mechanical/fuel-gas amendments (18-inch minimum burial for plastic gas/fuel piping, 20 psig/20-minute test parameters, 12-inch trap-arm and cleanout-related amendments); International Fuel Gas Code 2018 (former Article 12, repealed); International Existing Building Code 2018 (former Article 13, repealed). NOTE: the Town's own public-facing building_code_permits.php webpage still describes the adopted code as plain 'International Building Code 2018' as of this review — this is stale relative to the actual codified ordinance text, which governs. Direct code citation (RBC-prefixed sections) confirms the current PPRBC adoption is authoritative.; Fire Protection Impact Fee (Calhan Municipal Code Article 14, NOT repealed by the above ordinance — remains standing): imposed under CRS 29-20-104.5 authority (as amended by HB16-1088) on new development served by the Calhan Fire Protection District. This is a development impact fee collected at building-permit application, not itself a building-permit type.. Local amendments apply — see the Calhan overview page for the full list.

No. A full-text review of the Town's codified Chapter 15 (Land Use) and Chapter 18 ('Zoning') found no sign-standards section anywhere — Chapter 18 regulates only marijuana and camping, and Chapter 15 mentions signs only in its general definitions and in a manufactured-home-park subdivision-plat provision. Sign permitting for a Calhan property is instead handled through PPRBD's flat $30.00 Sign Permit Fee, the same building-permit administrator that has covered all other Calhan building permits since July 1, 2026.