Craig building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Craig, Colorado.
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Building department
- Address
- Craig City Hall, 300 W 4th Street, Craig, CO 81625
- Phone
- 970-826-2013
- Office hours
- Monday-Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm. Building Official: Marlin Eckhoff (Office 970-826-2013, Cell 970-326-3645, meckhoff@ci.craig.co.us). Building Administrator: Sierra Arellano (970-826-2024, sarellano@ci.craig.co.us) handles contractor licensing/registration. The department is located upstairs within Craig City Hall, in the Community Development Department. Verified identically on both the City of Craig's and Moffat County's own department pages.
- Website
- Official site
Inspection guide
See how inspections work in Craig — 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.
- 2018 International Building Code (IBC) — City of Craig and Moffat County, effective for all plan review and inspections as of January 1, 2020
- 2018 International Residential Code (IRC)
- 2018 International Existing Building Code (IEBC)
- 2018 International Mechanical Code (IMC)
- 2018 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC)
- 2018 International Plumbing Code (IPC)
- 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)
- 2018 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) — City of Craig ONLY, not adopted by Moffat County for unincorporated areas
- 2018 International Fire Code (IFC) — cited directly in the Residential Solar Installation Checklist for firefighter access path requirements (typically 36 inches)
- National Electrical Code (NEC), the version adopted by the State of Colorado — NOT locally enforced; the City of Craig and Moffat County both defer ALL electrical permits, plan review, and inspections to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), Division of Professions and Occupations, State Electrical Board
- 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (CWRC), effective July 1, 2026 — verified directly from the City's own Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code page; any complete Building Permit Application received by 5:30pm on June 30, 2026 is exempt from CWRC requirements provided the permit fee is paid within 30 days of approval notification; applications received July 1, 2026 or later are subject to CWRC. Applicability (Class 1 vs Class 2 requirements) is determined by an address/parcel lookup on the Colorado Resiliency Code Map (unshaded = no requirements, yellow = Class 1, orange/red = Class 2).
- Local IRC deletions (verified from the City's own Adopted Codes page): IRC Section R313 (Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems) is deleted — sprinkler systems are NOT required in one- and two-family dwellings; IRC Section N1102.4.1.2 (Testing / blower door tests) is deleted — blower door tests are NOT required; IRC Section N1102.4.4 (Rooms containing fuel-burning appliances) is deleted; IRC Section R302.13 (Fire protection of floors) is deleted.
Permit types & fees
Residential Building Permit (New Construction)
Required for new construction of single-family and two-family dwellings, and detached/multi-dwelling residential buildings, within the Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's joint jurisdiction (City of Craig plus all of Moffat County except the Town of Dinosaur). Administered under the jointly-adopted 2018 IBC/IRC. Electrical permitting, plan review, and inspection are handled entirely by the State of Colorado (DORA), not this department.
Residential Addition / Remodel Permit
Covers both major additions to existing structures and minor additions/modifications/repairs/renovations/remodeling. The Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's own checklist PDF splits these into two distinct document-requirement tiers.
Electrical Permit (State-Administered)
Electrical work in both the City of Craig and unincorporated Moffat County is administered entirely by the State of Colorado, not the local Building Department. This permit type documents that state-administered pathway rather than a local process.
Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permit (State-Administered)
Installing an EV charger/EVSE in Craig or unincorporated Moffat County is electrical work, and both the City and County defer ALL electrical permits, plan reviews, and inspections to the State of Colorado -- the same state-administered pathway documented in this file's electrical-permit entry. No Craig/Moffat County EV-charger-specific permit application, fee line, or webpage was found -- checked the City's Permits & Inspections page, Adopted Codes page, Residential Solar Installation Checklist, and the Checklists for Obtaining Permits & Scheduling Inspections PDF directly; none name electric vehicle charging stations, EV chargers, or EVSE.
Plumbing Permit
Required for plumbing renovation, repair, piping system extension, and fixture/appliance work not performed under a Building Permit, within the Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's joint jurisdiction. Governed by the jointly-adopted 2018 IPC.
Mechanical / HVAC Permit
Required for HVAC/mechanical renovation, major repairs, piping system extension, and appliance replacement (including A/C unit or evaporative cooler installation/replacement) not performed under a Building Permit. Governed by the jointly-adopted 2018 IMC/IFGC.
Roofing Permit (Re-Roof)
Required for re-roofing work within the Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's joint jurisdiction. A simpler, lighter-document permit category than new construction per the department's own checklist.
Solar Permit (Photovoltaic)
Required for residential solar installations. The Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department handles structural/racking/fire-access plan review and inspection; the electrical portion is handled entirely separately and independently by the State of Colorado, with State approval required BEFORE the local Building Permit is issued.
Demolition Permit
Required for demolition work within the Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's joint jurisdiction. Asbestos inspection and CDPHE notification are mandatory prerequisites administered at the state level, in addition to a local General Demolition Application.
Fence / Retaining Wall Permit
Required for fences over 6 feet high and retaining walls over 4 feet high within the Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department's joint jurisdiction.
New residential construction activity
New privately-owned residential construction onlyHousing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).
- Latest month (2026-05)
- No data reported
- Trailing 12 months
- No data reported
- Year to date (2026 YTD)
- No data reported
- Full year 2025
- 11units
11 buildings · $5.5M valuation
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-05 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Colorado building activity
Tips & gotchas
- This is a genuinely joint City/County department (Craig/Moffat County Regional Building Department), currently active as of 2026 — a prior scoping concern that this arrangement may have lapsed (based on its disappearance from a later revision of a 2021 Colorado DFPC list) was checked directly against both the City's and County's own live websites and found to be unfounded; the department is real, active, and named identically (Building Official Marlin Eckhoff) on both government sites, with 2026-dated County resolutions cited on the County's own page.
- Electrical work is the single biggest structural gotcha here: neither the City nor the County issues, reviews, or inspects electrical permits at all — that entire trade is deferred to the State of Colorado (DORA, Division of Professions and Occupations, State Electrical Board). Applicants used to a single local building department handling all trades need to plan for a separate state-level electrical application and inspection track.
- The department uses a simple flat fee ($100 for structures over 200 sq ft, $100 for septic) rather than the valuation-based sliding-scale fee tables common in other Colorado mountain-region jurisdictions in this corpus (e.g., RCRBD/Steamboat Springs) — verify this still applies to your specific project scope directly with the Building Official, since no separate schedule was found published for larger or commercial projects.
- No plan-review turnaround/SLA document is published by this department, unlike some peer Colorado jurisdictions in this corpus — every reviewTimelineDays field in this file is honestly null/unverified rather than estimated.
- The department serves the City of Craig and all of Moffat County EXCEPT the Town of Dinosaur, which is a separate incorporated jurisdiction not covered here.
- The 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code takes effect for this jurisdiction on July 1, 2026 — any building permit application submitted and approved before that date (with the fee paid within 30 days of approval) is exempt from CWRC; anything submitted July 1, 2026 or later is subject to it, with the applicable class (1 or 2, or none) determined by an address/parcel lookup on the Colorado Resiliency Code Map.