Residential Building Permit (New Single-Family Construction) in Victor, Colorado

Victor requires a residential building permit (new single-family construction) for: Building Permit Application and required plans, Building Guides, and other requested documents submitted in person at Victor City Hall along with permit fees; Per the Permit Requirement Quick Guide, a new single-family residence requires: Permit, Application, Engineering Plans (2 electronic sets), Drawing Plans (2 electronic sets), Boundary Survey, Water/Soils Test (wet-stamped), Structural Plans (wet-stamped, if trusses used), Engineering Plans (wet-stamped), prescriptive or Manual-J-based energy compliance, Manual J, and Electrical/Plumbing/Mechanical plans; Foundations must rest at or below the 36-inch frost depth per the City's Design Criteria, unless a code-approved exception applies; A soils test report from a qualified Geotechnical Engineer is required per IRC R401.4 / IBC 1803.1, and foundation plans must be designed to that report; Structural design must meet the City's wind speed (90 mph, Exposure C assumed), snow load (40 psf), and Seismic Zone B criteria; Construction may not commence until the permit is issued and posted on the property; permits become null and void after 365 days without an inspection. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Victor Building Department at 719-689-2284 before starting work.

In Victor, the published Building Permit Fee (covers building, plumbing, mechanical) — valuation $1.00 to $500.00 is: $23.50. Additional published fees: Building Permit Fee — valuation $501.00 to $2,000.00 — $23.50 for the first $500 plus $3.05 for each additional $100 or fraction thereof, to and including $2,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $2,001.00 to $25,000.00 — $69.25 for the first $2,000 plus $14.00 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $25,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $25,001.00 to $50,000.00 — $391.25 for the first $25,000 plus $10.10 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $50,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $50,001.00 to $100,000.00 — $643.75 for the first $50,000 plus $7.00 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $100,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $100,001.00 to $500,000.00 — $993.75 for the first $100,000 plus $5.60 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $500,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $500,001.00 to $1,000,000.00 — $3,233.75 for the first $500,000 plus $4.75 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $1,000,000.00; Building Permit Fee — valuation $1,000,001.00 and up — $5,608.75 for the first $1,000,000 plus $3.15 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof; Building Plan Review Fee (if required) — 65% of the building permit fee for the initial and second review; actual code-consultant costs for any additional review; Investigation Fee (work started without a permit) — Equal to the permit fee, in addition to required permit fees. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

The City does not publish a specific numeric turnaround time for plan review. No statewide review-time statute applies, and Victor's Building Department, Building Permits, and Fee Schedule pages do not state an SLA for this permit type.

You'll need: Building Permit Application; Engineering and Drawing Plan Sets (2 electronic sets each); Boundary Survey; Soils/Geotechnical Report (wet-stamped); Structural and Engineering Plans (wet-stamped); Manual J Calculation. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Victor requires 4 inspection(s) for a residential building permit (new single-family construction), in order: Foundation, Framing, Rough Electrical / Plumbing / Mechanical, Final Inspection. Schedule each through City of Victor Building Department (719-689-2284).

Apply through City of Victor Building Department at 500 Victor Ave (also published as 500 W. Victor Ave.), PO Box 86, Victor, CO 80860. Phone: 719-689-2284. Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 8am to 5pm, Friday: 8am to Noon. The City contracts with Shums Coda Associates (ShumsCoda) as its Building Official for plan review and inspections; general/code-interpretation questions are directed to the Building Department main line above.. Official information: https://www.cityofvictor.com/building-department.

Victor, Colorado has adopted: 2012 International Building Code (IBC) — City of Victor Design Criteria document (Building Department page, 'Adopted Codes' section); 2012 International Residential Code (IRC); 2012 International Plumbing Code (IPC); 2012 International Mechanical Code (IMC); 2012 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC); 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC); 2014 National Electrical Code (NEC); Local amendments to the above codes are adopted by Ordinance No. 485; the Design Criteria document's direct link to the Ordinance No. 485 PDF (hosted on the City's legacy cityofvictor.com/downloads path) returned a connection error on re-check and could not be independently re-verified as still live — the amendment's EXISTENCE and code-cycle citation is confirmed via the current Design Criteria document itself (a live, actively-published Building Department resource), but its full text could not be retrieved during this pass.; Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code: Ordinance No. 526 (adopted 3/19/2026) amends Chapter 18 of the Victor Municipal Code by adding a new Article 12 adopting the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code with local amendments — confirmed via the Municode Library's 'Adopted Ordinances Not Yet Codified' index for Victor, CO (ordinance not yet folded into the codified Chapter 18 text, which remains current only through Ordinance No. 511/2019 in the online codified view). This aligns with SB23-166's statewide Wildfire Resiliency Code Board mandate requiring local governments in the Wildland-Urban Interface to adopt minimum wildfire-resiliency structure-hardening and defensible-space standards by April 1, 2026.; The Design Criteria document (undated on-page, but the only live current-codes statement the Building Department publishes) is treated as the governing adopted-code list; it does not reference the 2024 code cycle used by some other Colorado jurisdictions in this corpus (e.g. Vail) — Victor's own document names 2012 I-Codes and 2014 NEC specifically, and no newer supersession was found on the Building Department, Building Permits, Ordinances and Resolutions, or Forms pages during this review.. Local amendments apply — see the Victor overview page for the full list.

The City of Victor Building Department issues its own building permits under Chapter 18 of its Municipal Code. The City is a Colorado Statutory City and contracts with Shums Coda Associates (ShumsCoda) as its Building Official for plan review and inspections.