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Saguache building permits
Saguache, Colorado — as published 2026-07-07.
Reviewed 2026-07-13 · Source
Codes adopted
NONE — ColoradoEnergy.org, a statewide Colorado building/energy code-adoption tracking directory maintained independently of any single jurisdiction, lists the Town of Saguache's Building Code status explicitly as 'No Building Codes' (coloradoenergy.org/codes/codes.aspx?City=Saguache), with a Town Clerk contact (504 San Juan Ave, Saguache, CO 81149, 719-655-2232) matching this file's independently-verified Town Hall contact exactly — confirming this listing is genuinely about the Town, not Saguache County. NOTE (2026-07-07 liveness re-check): coloradoenergy.org's HTTPS endpoint is currently hanging at the application layer, not blocked at the network layer — DNS resolves, TCP connects, and the TLS handshake completes normally (verified via a verbose curl trace), but the server accepts the HTTP request and then returns zero bytes indefinitely; plain HTTP (port 80) does eventually answer with a slow ~17s 301 redirect to the same broken HTTPS endpoint. This points to a stuck/overloaded backend on their end, not a DNS or network-path problem. Its own Wayback captures for this exact page stop at 2010, too stale to cite as current-state confirmation. The 'No Building Codes' finding is retained on the strength of the independent Town Clerk contact match above, not the ColoradoEnergy.org citation alone. Re-check coloradoenergy.org liveness in a future session.UPDATE (2026-07-07): the Town's Municode Chapter 18 — previously flagged as unreachable (see prior note below) — was successfully read directly via a live browser render (library.municode.com/co/saguache/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=CD_ORD_CH18BURE; the site is a client-rendered SPA that returns an empty shell to plain HTTP fetches/Wayback, which is why earlier non-browser attempts failed). 'CHAPTER 18 - Building Regulations' is codified through Ordinance No. 2023-2 (enacted March 13, 2023) and contains exactly three articles, none of which adopt a model construction code: Article 1 (Sec. 18-1-10 through 18-1-90), Dangerous Buildings — an unsafe-structure abatement/demolition procedure whose text references 'the adopted building code' only as hypothetical boilerplate (comparing a damaged structure's remaining strength to what a new building would need), never naming or adopting the IBC/IRC/any specific code; Article 2 (Sec. 18-2-10 through 18-2-80), Flood Damage Prevention — a FEMA/NFIP floodplain-management ordinance adopted under Title 29 C.R.S. authority, unrelated to general construction permitting (this corrects an earlier speculative title guess of 'Field Approval,' sourced only from search-engine snippets before this chapter could actually be read); Article 3 (Sec. 18-3-10 through 18-3-50), Manufactured Homes, Mobile Homes, Mobile Home Parks and RV Parks — zoning/prohibition rules, not a construction code adoption. This directly confirms, from the Town's own primary source rather than the third-party ColoradoEnergy.org directory alone, that the Town has NOT adopted the IBC/IRC or any other model building code.PRIOR NOTE (superseded by the UPDATE above, retained for audit trail): The Town's own currently codified Municipal Code (hosted on Municode Library, library.municode.com/co/saguache) does contain a 'CHAPTER 18 - Building Regulations' with at least an 'Article 2 - Field Approval' and an 'Article 3 - Manufactured Homes/Mobile Homes/Home Parks/Vacation Parks' (chapter/article titles confirmed via Municode's own site-indexed page titles across multiple independent search-engine queries). However, the verbatim text of Chapter 18 (including any fee schedule, permit-issuance procedure, or code-edition citation it may contain) could NOT be retrieved after exhausting every available recovery avenue: Municode's MunicodeNEXT platform serves this content exclusively via an authenticated Angular/API backend (library.municode.com/api and mcclibraryfunctions.azurewebsites.us/api both returned 401 Unauthorized to unauthenticated and referer-header requests); the Wayback Machine never captured real chapter content because Municode is a client-rendered SPA that legacy crawlers indexed as an empty shell (CDX lookups for library.municode.com/co/saguache* returned zero snapshots); Firecrawl (which can render JS) was unavailable due to exhausted account credits at time of this review; and Google/Bing search snippets surfaced only page titles, never body text, for this specific chapter.No adopted electrical code (NEC) or plumbing code (IPC) edition was found attributable to the Town specifically; per Colorado's standard structure for small statutory towns without their own trade-permitting programs, electrical and plumbing work is presumed to fall to Colorado DORA state board licensing/permitting rather than a Town-run trade-permit program, but this file does NOT assert a Town electrical or plumbing permit process given the complete absence of any Town-published fee, form, or procedure for either trade (see localAmendments).
Permit types & fees
Building Permit
The Town of Saguache requires a Building Permit for construction activity within town limits, per the Town's own official 'Licenses and Permits' page. Applications are handled directly by the Town Clerk or Deputy Clerk at Town Hall — there is no dedicated Building Department, Building Official, or Zoning Administrator role documented for the Town, and no confirmed adopted model building code (IBC/IRC) governs plan review; ColoradoEnergy.org's independent statewide code-tracking directory lists the Town's Building Code status as 'No Building Codes.'
Reviewed 2026-07-13 · Source
Requirements
- Contact the Town Clerk or Deputy Clerk at Saguache Town Hall (504 San Juan Avenue, P.O. Box 417, Saguache, CO 81149; 719-655-2232) to apply — the Town's own page directs applicants there directly rather than to a specific online portal or downloadable form
- No downloadable Building Permit application form, fee schedule, or submittal checklist was found on the Town's website (live or archived) — the Town's 'Forms' page lists only an unrelated 'Community Building Use Application' (a facility-rental form)
- The State of Colorado may require further permits or licenses in addition to the Town's Building Permit, per the Town's own Licenses and Permits page — likely referring to electrical/plumbing trade licensing administered by Colorado DORA state boards, though the Town's page does not itself specify which state permits apply
Required documents
- RequiredApplication for Building Site Permit (found live 2026-07-13)One-page fillable form, part of an 8-page scanned PDF packet titled 'Building Permit' under Documents > Forms on the Town's rebuilt live site (https://www.townofsaguache.org/uploads/building_permit_package.pdf; approved by Board of Trustees 12/14/2015). Covers New Construction, Addition, Bridges/Walkways/Driveways, Roof Replacement, Fence or Deck, Demolition, Mobile Home, Single/Multi Unit Residence, Lot Level Change, and Commercial/Industrial project types on one form. No fee schedule or numeric review-turnaround language appears anywhere in the 8-page packet (pages 3-8 are generic Colorado CDPHE asbestos renovation/demolition handouts, not Town-specific).
Fee schedule
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Sources & verification
Key facts verified against official sources. Last reviewed 2026-07-13.
Applications & forms
Online permit portal
Codes & ordinances
Department & other records
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