Mountain View building permits

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Building department

Address: Mountain View Town Hall, 4176 Benton Street, Mountain View, CO 80212
Phone: (303) 450-8746
Email: Buildingpermits@tomv.org
Office hours: Building division operates weekdays 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (Town's FAQ page prints this as '8:00 a.m. - 5:00 a.m.', which is evidently a typo for 5:00 p.m. given the Town Hall's own general business hours; noted honestly rather than silently corrected without flagging). Inspection request line (303) 450-8748 — call by 4:00 p.m. for next-business-day inspection. Town Hall main line (303) 421-7282.
Website: Official site
Permit portal: Apply online at Mountain View's portal

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Mountain View — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Colorado has no statewide-mandated building code edition. Under the Colorado Constitution's home-rule provisions (art. XX, home rule for municipalities since 1902; home rule for counties since 1970), building codes and zoning are an enumerated home-rule charter power, so cities and counties adopt and amend their own construction codes independently — predominantly the I-Codes, with editions and local amendments varying by jurisdiction. The one statewide floor is for energy: HB22-1362 (2022) created the Energy Code Board (jointly appointed by the Colorado Energy Office and the Department of Local Affairs) and requires that, on or after July 1, 2023 and before July 1, 2026, any municipality or county that adopts or updates a building code must adopt and enforce an energy code achieving performance equivalent to or better than the 2021 IECC together with the board's Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code (which includes electric-ready, EV-ready, and solar-ready provisions); from July 1, 2026 onward the floor shifts to the board's Model Low Energy and Carbon Code or an equivalent. Electrical and plumbing permitting defaults to the Colorado State Electrical Board and State Plumbing Board (within DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations) — the state issues permits and inspects statewide except in counties/jurisdictions that operate their own certified Electrical or Plumbing Inspection Program, in which case the local program has authority instead. Always confirm the currently adopted code edition, local amendments, and inspection authority (state board vs. local program) with the specific jurisdiction before submitting plans.

2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — referenced as the current adopted standard on the Town's 'Helpful Building Permit Handouts' page (page title/meta-description: 'Handouts developed by the Colorado Chapter of… Show full textShow less
2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — referenced as the current adopted standard on the Town's 'Helpful Building Permit Handouts' page (page title/meta-description: 'Handouts developed by the Colorado Chapter of the International Code Council as a basic plan submittal under the 2021 International Residential Code') and cross-confirmed on the Town's own Building Permit Application (page 3, Homeowner Electrical/Plumbing certification): 'in accordance with the current edition of the National Electric Code, International Residential Code, and International Plumbing Code adopted by the Town of Mountain View as the minimum standard.'
National Electrical Code (NEC) — current edition, per the same Building Permit Application homeowner-certification language; the Town's live public-facing pages do not print the specific NEC year cycle (e.g. 2020 vs 2023) anywhere checked (Building Department page, Building Permits page, Handouts page, Application PDF) — noted as a gap rather than guessed.
International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2021 Edition — per the Town's own codified Municipal Code §18.08.010 ('International Plumbing Code adopted,' mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18.8): 'The International Plumbing Code, 2021 Edition... Show full textShow less
International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2021 Edition — per the Town's own codified Municipal Code §18.08.010 ('International Plumbing Code adopted,' mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18.8): 'The International Plumbing Code, 2021 Edition... is adopted by reference... The provisions of the International Plumbing Code shall apply to the construction of, and renovations or additions to, all commercial and residential buildings within the Town.' (Ord. 2024-07-15A §17; Ord. 2019-02-11F §1; Ord. 2010-7 §4). The Building Department's public-facing webpages do not print the specific year cycle; the Municipal Code's own codified Article 8 does.
An older page is still online from the Town's previous CivicLive-hosted site (mountainviewco.hosted.civiclive.com/services/building_department_/building_permits, and its townofmountainviewcolorado.org mirror) stating… Show full textShow less
An older page is still online from the Town's previous CivicLive-hosted site (mountainviewco.hosted.civiclive.com/services/building_department_/building_permits, and its townofmountainviewcolorado.org mirror) stating that 'The 2015 International Building Code is the official adopted reference for building codes and applicable to Mountain View, effective March 28, 2019.' That page predates the Town's current SAFEbuilt-administered site at tomv.org and its CommunityCore permitting system. Work from the Town's live Helpful Building Permit Handouts page, which references the 2021 IRC-based ICC Colorado Chapter guides, and confirm the adopted edition with the Building Department before designing to the older page.
The Town's Municipal Code Chapter 18 (Building Regulations, mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18) adopts the following editions, each quoted directly from its codified section: International Fire Code (IFC), 2021 Edition… Show full textShow less
The Town's Municipal Code Chapter 18 (Building Regulations, mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18) adopts the following editions, each quoted directly from its codified section: International Fire Code (IFC), 2021 Edition — §18.05.010 ('The International Fire Code, 2021 Edition... is adopted by reference'; Ord. 2024-07-15A §11), further amended per West Metro Fire Protection District Resolution No. 2022-08 (§18.05.030). International Mechanical Code (IMC), 2021 Edition — §18.07.010 (Ord. 2024-07-15A §14; Ord. 2019-02-11E §1; Ord. 2010-7 §4). International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2021 Edition — §18.08.010 (Ord. 2024-07-15A §17; see also the dedicated IPC codesAdopted entry above). International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), 2015 Edition — §18.11.010 ('The International Fuel Gas Code, 2015 Edition... is adopted by reference'; Ord. 2019-02-11H §1) — notably NOT bumped to 2021 by the Town's 2024-07-15A omnibus code-update ordinance, unlike every other International code family in Chapter 18; this lag is a real, confirmed feature of the Town's current code. International Existing Building Code (IEBC), 2021 Edition — §18.12.010 (Ord. 2024-07-15A §19; Ord. 2019-02-11G §1). International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), 2021 Edition — §18.045.010 (Ord. 2024-07-15A §9); see also the dedicated HB22-1362 entry below, which this same Article resolves. Every Article states its provisions 'shall apply to the construction of, and renovations or additions to, all commercial and residential buildings within the Town' (near-identical boilerplate in each Article), so none of these adopted codes are residential- or commercial-only carve-outs.
No IBC, IFC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, or IEBC edition is printed anywhere on the Town's live public-facing pages, its Building Permit Application, or its Use Tax Guidelines — Mountain View's public-facing materials are IRC/NEC/IPC-focused. Show full textShow less
No IBC, IFC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, or IEBC edition is printed anywhere on the Town's live public-facing pages, its Building Permit Application, or its Use Tax Guidelines — Mountain View's public-facing materials are IRC/NEC/IPC-focused. The Town's Municipal Code Chapter 18 (Building Regulations, mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18) does, however, include dedicated Articles for the IBC (Art. 4, 2021 Edition, Ord. 2024-07-15A/2019-02-11A/2010-7), IRC (Art. 13, 2021 Edition, Ord. 2024-07-15A/2019-02-11I), Fire Code (Art. 5), Mechanical Code (Art. 7), Fuel Gas Code (Art. 11), Existing Building Code (Art. 12), and Energy Conservation Code (Art. 4.5). The IBC and IRC edition years (2021) are confirmed from Articles 4 and 13; the specific edition years adopted in Articles 5/7/8/11/12/4.5 (covering the IFC, IMC, IFGC, IEBC, and IECC) are not stated in the Town's public-facing materials and are not recorded here rather than assumed — see the entry above for the confirmed figures.
The Town has taken its own HB22-1362 adoption action, codified directly in Municipal Code §18.045.010 (Article 4.5, Energy Conservation Code, mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18.4.5): 'In addition to the IECC, the Town… Show full textShow less
The Town has taken its own HB22-1362 adoption action, codified directly in Municipal Code §18.045.010 (Article 4.5, Energy Conservation Code, mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18.4.5): 'In addition to the IECC, the Town of Mountain View will also be adopting the Colorado Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code as required by State law under HB22-1362. These requirements will be in addition to those found in this Code.' (Ord. 2024-07-15A §9). The same Article's amendments (§18.045.020) further amend IECC Sections C401.2 and R401.2 to require commercial and residential buildings, respectively, to 'comply with the Colorado Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code.' The codified ordinance itself thus directly and specifically confirms the Town's HB22-1362 compliance action.
Superseded by the entry above; retained for the record. HB22-1362 (Colorado's statewide building energy code / greenhouse-gas-emissions law, requiring local governments to adopt an energy code and, per its later… Show full textShow less
Superseded by the entry above; retained for the record. HB22-1362 (Colorado's statewide building energy code / greenhouse-gas-emissions law, requiring local governments to adopt an energy code and, per its later compliance milestones, the Colorado Electric and Solar Ready Code) is not mentioned anywhere on the Town's live Building Department, Building Permits, or Helpful Handouts pages. Given Mountain View's tiny size and thin published program (no separate energy-code page, no mechanical/energy-specific permit-type page), public sources do not establish whether the Town has taken its own HB22-1362 adoption action or is relying on some other mechanism; this is left unresolved rather than stated as fact either way.

Permit types & fees

Mountain View's permit history isn't searchable here yet

This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for Mountain View yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.

Your email, and the place — never an address. We only use it to tell you when Mountain View lands. Privacy.

New residential construction activity

New privately-owned residential construction only

Housing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).

Latest month (2026-07): No data reported
Trailing 12 months: No data reported
Year to date (2026 YTD): No data reported
Full year 2025: 36units
28 buildings · $10M valuation

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-07 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Colorado building activity

Tips & gotchas

Mountain View is a tiny (~530-resident, twelve-block) home-rule enclave town completely surrounded by the City of Lakewood, bordering Denver, Lakeside, and Wheat Ridge — it runs its OWN independent Building Department program (via contracted administrator SAFEbuilt), fully separate from Jefferson County's unincorporated-area permitting.
Mountain View does not require a Town contractor licence or registration — its own Building Department FAQ states this explicitly, which is worth knowing if you expect a local registration step. Contractors still need a CommunityCore login and must supply any state or other-municipality licence they hold.
The Town publishes a specific, numeric plan-review timeline (5-10 business days residential; 10-20 / 21-30 business days commercial by size) rather than the 'no SLA published' pattern common elsewhere in this Colorado home-rule corpus — but a separate, older/legacy Town-hosted page states different, faster figures (2-4 / 8-10 / 12-14 business days) alongside a claim that the 2015 IBC is 'the official adopted' code effective 2019. Because the two Town-affiliated pages conflict and the legacy page appears superseded by the Town's current SAFEbuilt/CommunityCore-era site, only the current tomv.org Building Department FAQ figures are treated as governing in this record.
Use Tax is a real, concretely-formulated local charge: Total Project Valuation x 50% (assumed materials) x 4% (Town rate), due at permit issuance — bring your paid/completed Building Permit Application to material vendors to avoid double-paying municipal sales tax on top of it. Note a discrepancy in the Town's own materials: the Town's live Building Department FAQ states 4% while its Use Tax Guidelines PDF ('Last Updated 2022') states 3% — the current, actively-maintained FAQ page is treated as governing, consistent with how the review-timeline conflict noted below is handled.
An itemized, dollar-value Building Permit Fee schedule DOES exist — it is just not linked from the Building Department's own public-facing webpages. It lives in the Town Council's meeting-materials/resolution archive as Resolution No. 2024-12-16H, Exhibit A 'Town of Mountain View Fee Schedule' (updated 12/12/2024, tomv.org/media/2046): a valuation-tiered table ($40.00 flat up to $500 valuation, scaling up through $5,608.75 + $3.65/$1,000 above $1,000,000), plus a Plan Review Fee set at 65% of the Building Permit Fee. This table is reflected in every permit type's fees listed for this jurisdiction. Project valuation itself is still determined by the Town's Building Inspector using the ICC Building Valuation Data table, not a Town-published per-square-foot chart.
Electrical and plumbing permits are issued directly by the Town's own Building Department (via SAFEbuilt) — NOT deferred to the Colorado State Electrical Board or State Plumbing Board for permit issuance — though the Town performs contemporaneous state-license verification for those trades per Colorado statute (C.R.S. Title 12, Articles 115 and 155), consistent with HB19-1086/SB19-156.
Homeowners may self-perform electrical and plumbing work on their own dwelling (not for immediate sale/resale, not a tenant-occupied rental) under a signed Homeowner Permit certification, requiring a minimum of two inspections.
A Design Review Committee (DRC) meeting is free, optional, and non-binding — 1st and 3rd Thursday, 11:30am-1:30pm, first come first served. Use it to get feedback on your concept before you spend money on a formal submittal.
Fence-replacement permits are handled by the Public Works Department (via a Right-of-Way/ROW permit), not the Building Department/SAFEbuilt.
The Town's Municipal Code Chapter 18 (Building Regulations) is published at mountainview.municipal.codes/Code/18 — open it in an ordinary web browser, since the site runs a security interstitial that resolves after a few seconds. Articles 1, 2, 4, and 13 confirm 2021 IBC and 2021 IRC as the Town's current adopted editions by ordinance citation, and contain no codified permit-review-timeline SLA and no trade-specific fee table. Fees are set by Council resolution instead — see Resolution No. 2024-12-16H, tomv.org/media/2046 — not codified in the Municipal Code itself.
Chapter 18 Articles 5 (Fire), 7 (Mechanical), 8 (Plumbing), 11 (Fuel Gas), 12 (Existing Building), and 4.5 (Energy Conservation) establish the adopted editions: 2021 IFC (§18.05.010), 2021 IMC (§18.07.010), 2021 IPC (§18.08.010), 2015 IFGC (§18.11.010 — notably not bumped to 2021 by the Town's 2024-07-15A code-update ordinance, unlike every other International code family in the Chapter), 2021 IEBC (§18.12.010), and 2021 IECC (§18.045.010). Article 4.5 also directly resolves the Town's HB22-1362 status: it explicitly states the Town 'will also be adopting the Colorado Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code as required by State law under HB22-1362,' and amends IECC §§C401.2/R401.2 accordingly (Ord. 2024-07-15A §§9-10). See the corresponding codesAdopted entries above for full citations.
Superseded — retained for the record; see the entry above that closes this gap. At the time this note was written, no specific IBC, IFC, IMC, IFGC, or IECC edition was stated on any live Town page, and no statement about the Town's HB22-1362 (statewide building energy/greenhouse-gas code) adoption status appeared anywhere on the Town's public Building Department materials — both were flagged as gaps rather than assumed from a peer Colorado jurisdiction or state default.