Palisade building permits

Building department

Address

Town of Palisade Community Development: 175 East 3rd Street, P.O. Box 128, Palisade, CO 81526. Mesa County Building Department: 200 S. Spruce Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501 (mailing: PO Box 20,000-5005, Grand Junction, CO 81502-5001)

Phone

Town of Palisade Community Development: (970) 464-5602. Mesa County Building Department: (970) 244-1631

Email

planning@townofpalisade.org (Town Planning Clearance); mccomdev@mesacounty.us (Mesa County Building Department)

Office hours

Town of Palisade: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mesa County Building Department: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; permit issuance after 4:30 p.m. is on a limited basis (Source: Mesa County Building Department Fees page).

Website

Official site

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Palisade — 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.

• AUTHORITY MODEL NOTE: Colorado has no statewide building code (home-rule state); each city or county adopts and amends its own. Colorado does set a statutory statewide energy-code floor via HB22-1362 (requiring jurisdictions that adopt a building code to also adopt the most current or immediately preceding edition of the IECC on a rolling basis) and separate ADU-related state statutes (e.g., HB24-1152). The Town of Palisade has NOT adopted its own separate building code — it relies on Mesa County's adopted code cycle for all building, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical permitting, per Mesa County's own department description ('supplies permits, and current codes for building projects in ... the towns of De Beque, Collbran, Palisade, and the City of Grand Junction').
• Mesa County Building Department began enforcement of a new adopted-code cycle effective September 1, 2025 (per Mesa County Ordinance adopting and amending Building Codes, in compliance with HB21-1110). Source: Mesa County Adopted Codes and Regulations page. This is the same code cycle documented in this corpus's grand-junction.json (same issuing department).
• 2024 International Building Code (IBC) — Mesa County adopted code, effective enforcement September 1, 2025, applies within Palisade town limits
• 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — Mesa County adopted code, effective enforcement September 1, 2025
• 2024 International Residential Code (IRC) — Mesa County adopted code, effective enforcement September 1, 2025
• 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — Mesa County adopted code, effective enforcement September 1, 2025
• 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — Mesa County adopted code; enforcement began September 1, 2025 'in compliance with House Bill 22-1362'
• Colorado Plumbing and Fuel Gas Code, 2021 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), 2021 International Plumbing Code (IPC), 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — all state/county-adopted per Mesa County's Adopted Codes page, applying identically within Palisade town limits
• Town of Palisade Land Development Code (LDC), most recently the July 2023 Revision — this is a ZONING/LAND-USE code, not a building code; it governs the Town's own Planning Clearance process (Section 4.08) and does not itself set building-code technical standards

Permit types & fees

• Residential Building Permit (New Construction) — Town Planning Clearance + Mesa County Building Permit

  Required for construction of new one- and two-family dwellings, townhouses, manufactured homes, and additions to existing residences in Palisade. A Town of Palisade 'New Residential Build' Planning Clearance must be applied for CONCURRENTLY with the Mesa County Building Department building permit application; Mesa County performs the actual plan review, permit issuance, and inspections, applying the 2024 IRC and 2021 IECC as adopted by Mesa County.

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• Residential Remodel / Reroof / Accessory Structure Permit — Basic or Accessory Planning Clearance + Mesa County Building Permit

  Required for reroofs, residing, interior remodels (excluding change of use), window replacement, electrical/plumbing service upgrades, and accessory structures (sheds, garages, carports, patios, gazebos, ADUs) in Palisade. A Town of Palisade 'Basic' or 'Accessory Structures & Uses' Planning Clearance is required concurrently with the Mesa County building permit application where a building permit is triggered.

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• Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Permit — Town Planning Clearance + Mesa County Building Permit

  Required for rooftop or ground-mount solar photovoltaic installation on property within the Town of Palisade. The actual building/electrical permit is issued and inspected by the Mesa County Building Department (not the Town), applying the Mesa County Photovoltaic Guide. Critically, the Mesa County Photovoltaic Guide explicitly names Palisade — together with De Beque and Collbran — as one of the jurisdictions where a residential roof-mount PV system requires a Town Planning Clearance BEFORE Mesa County will issue the building/electrical permit; this Town clearance step is NOT required for roof-mount systems in Grand Junction itself. Ground-mount PV systems require a Town/City planning clearance regardless of jurisdiction per the same Guide.

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• EV Charger / EVSE Permit — Mesa County Building Permit (Electrical)

  The Town of Palisade does not issue building or electrical permits — as with solar PV, the actual permit for an EV charger circuit is issued and inspected by the Mesa County Building Department, applying Mesa County Building Department Fee Schedule Fee #11 ('Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Hot Tubs, Pools & Spas Permit Fee'), billed per the valuation-based Table 2 schedule. No dedicated EV-specific line item or fee waiver is published in the Mesa County Fee Schedule (confirmed by direct review). Mesa County's population is well above the 20,000-resident threshold that triggers Colorado HB24-1173, the statewide EV Charging System Permits law requiring covered jurisdictions to notify applicants of approval/denial within 3 business days by a December 31, 2025 compliance deadline; whether Mesa County adopted the Colorado Energy Office's model code, its own standards, or elected to keep its existing process is not confirmed in any published source found. The Town of Palisade itself (population well under the Act's 10,000-resident municipal threshold) is not independently covered by HB24-1173, and it is not confirmed whether the Town's Basic Planning Clearance prerequisite — required for solar roof-mount systems per the Mesa County Photovoltaic Guide — also applies to EV chargers.

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