Commercial Tenant Improvement Permit in Edgewater, Colorado

Edgewater requires a commercial tenant improvement permit for: Commercial Submittal Checklist (updated September 2023) governs required documentation; Fire plan review by West Metro Fire Rescue District required; Jefferson County Health Department review required for commercial projects including food preparation or child care; All contractors must hold a current City of Edgewater Contractor's License (Class A required for work requiring architect/structural engineer supervision, or for public buildings/places of public assembly). If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Edgewater Community Development Department, Building & Planning Division at (720) 763-3001 before starting work.

In Edgewater, the published Building Permit Fee (valuation-based, same schedule as residential) is: $35.00 minimum, scaling per the valuation tiers in the Fee Surcharge Schedule, up to $4,928.00 plus $8.00/$1,000 above $500,000. Additional published fees: Plan Review Fee — 65% of the Permit Fee; Use Tax — Total valuation x 50% x 4%; Class A Contractor License (required for architect/structural-engineer-supervised or public-assembly work) — $153.00/year or $78.00 one-project-only. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

West Metro Fire Rescue District, which performs the required fire/life-safety plan review for Edgewater commercial projects, publishes on its Plan Review Submittal Process page: 'Current Plan Review Turnaround Time is 1-4 Weeks.' This is West Metro Fire's own turnaround, separate from the City/SAFEbuilt building-department review, which publishes no numeric timeline.

You'll need: Commercial Submittal Checklist; Building Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Edgewater requires 3 inspection(s) for a commercial tenant improvement permit, in order: Rough Inspections (structural, electrical, plumbing, mechanical), Fire Inspection, Final Inspection. Schedule each through City of Edgewater Community Development Department, Building & Planning Division ((720) 763-3001).

Apply through City of Edgewater Community Development Department, Building & Planning Division at 1800 Harlan St, Edgewater, CO 80214. Phone: (720) 763-3001, email: lhubble@edgewaterco.com. Office hours: Community Development is available Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm, except holidays. Best reached at (720) 763-3001 (Logan Hubble, Planning & Development Manager). Building Permit Technician (Bridget McGeoghegan, SAFEbuilt) direct line (303) 450-8745. Inspection requests: call (303) 450-8748 by 4pm the business day before the desired inspection, or call (303) 450-8745 after 8:30am the morning of the inspection for a two-hour arrival window. The City has contracted its building division services (plan review, inspections, code enforcement) to SAFEbuilt since 2013.. Official information: https://www.edgewaterco.gov/city-services/building-planning.

Edgewater, Colorado has adopted: 2021 International Building Code (IBC), with appendices I and N — Edgewater Municipal Code Sec. 18-2-10, adopted pursuant to Title 31, Article 16, Part 2, C.R.S.; 2021 International Residential Code (IRC), with all appendices — Sec. 18-3-10; 2023 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) — Sec. 18-4-10, adopted by Ord. 2024-06 (2024), no local amendments ('none' per Sec. 18-4-30); 2021 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — Sec. 18-5-10; 2021 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — Sec. 18-6-10, with local amendments at Sec. 18-6-30 (administrative sections re-pointing to City fee/appeal provisions); 2021 International Fire Code (IFC) — Sec. 18-7-10; 2021 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — Sec. 18-8-10; 2021 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — Sec. 18-9-10 (explicitly includes all buildings moved into the City, including manufactured/modular buildings, per Sec. 18-1-10(8)); 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — Sec. 18-10-10, with locally adopted Appendix RB/CB (Solar Ready), Appendix RD/CD (EV Ready), and Electric Ready provisions per Ord. 2023-08 (effective Sept. 1, 2023); 1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings (UCADB) — Sec. 18-13-10; 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code — listed on the City's live Applicable Codes & Design Criteria page (not independently cross-checked against a Municode chapter section during this review); ANSI A117.1-2012 Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities — listed on the City's live Applicable Codes & Design Criteria page; Discrepancy note: the City's live 'Applicable Codes & Design Criteria' webpage (edgewaterco.gov) lists '2020 National Electrical Code,' but the codified Edgewater Municipal Code Sec. 18-4-10 (Municode, current through Ord. 2024-06, adopted 2024) explicitly adopts 'NFPA 70 National Electric Code 2023.' The codified ordinance text is treated as the current, governing adoption in this file since it is dated later (2024) and is the actual legal text of Chapter 18, not a summary webpage that may lag a code update — consistent with this corpus's practice of trusting the actively-maintained legal source over a potentially stale summary page (see Vail's identical pattern).. Local amendments apply — see the Edgewater overview page for the full list.

Yes. Commercial projects that include food preparation require review by the Jefferson County Health Department, in addition to standard City/SAFEbuilt building-permit review and West Metro Fire Rescue District fire plan review.