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Residential Addition / Remodel / Demolition Permit in Garden City, Colorado

Required for additions, remodels, basement finishes, retaining walls over 4 feet in height, and demolition in Garden City. Reviewed under contract by ProCode Inc. (SAFEbuilt) against the Town's 2024 IRC as locally amended (Ordinance 11-2025 superseded the 2018 edition).

Verified 2026-07-23 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Permit required for: additions, basement finish, remodel or demolition, retaining walls over 4 feet in height, and structures exceeding 120 sq ft of floor area
  • A Licensed engineer's report/stamped drawings required if the scope affects structural elements or foundations, per the Town's locally-amended foundation provisions
  • Permit must be obtained before work commences to avoid an additional investigation fee

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Fee schedule

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Review timeline

Plan review
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Inspection process

  1. 1

    Rough Frame / Structural

    Framing and any structural modifications inspected before cover

  2. 2

    Insulation

    Required before wall coverings are installed, if insulation scope is affected

  3. 3

    Final Inspection

    All work complete per approved plans

See the full Garden City inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Retaining walls are only permit-exempt below 4 feet in height in Garden City — retaining walls at or above 4 feet require a full building permit.
  • Demolition is explicitly listed among projects requiring a permit in the Town's own consumer FAQ — do not assume tear-down work is exempt.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Basement finish is explicitly listed among the projects requiring a building permit on the Town of Garden City's published permit-requirement chart.

Garden City does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Garden City Town Hall (building permitting administered under contract by ProCode Inc., now branded SAFEbuilt) at 970-351-0041 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Building Permit Application; Sketch or Plans. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Garden City requires 3 inspection(s) for a residential addition / remodel / demolition permit, in order: Rough Frame / Structural, Insulation, Final Inspection. Schedule each through Town of Garden City Town Hall (building permitting administered under contract by ProCode Inc., now branded SAFEbuilt) (970-351-0041).

Apply through Town of Garden City Town Hall (building permitting administered under contract by ProCode Inc., now branded SAFEbuilt) at 9705 W. 10th Street, Garden City, CO 80631. Phone: 970-351-0041. Office hours: Town Hall main line 970-351-0041. Garden City has no in-house Building Official or Building Department staff of its own (Town Hall Employees directory lists only a Town Administrator, Deputy Clerk/Municipal Court Clerk, Finance Clerk, and Administrative Assistant); building inspection and plan review services are contracted out to ProCode Inc., which rebranded to SAFEbuilt in 2023-2024 and serves numerous Front Range Colorado municipalities from its Johnstown, CO office (39 S. Parish Avenue, Suite 220, Johnstown, CO 80534; 970-305-3161; COemail@safebuilt.com). Permit applications and inspection scheduling for Garden City route through the CommunityCore online portal, not directly through SAFEbuilt's own site.. Official information: https://www.townofgardencity.com/building-permits.

Garden City, Colorado has adopted: 2024 International Building Code (IBC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Residential Code (IRC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — Ordinance No. 11-2025 adopts the FULL 2024 IECC by reference (with local amendments to R402.5.1.3 air-leakage testing — 3 ACH50 detached / 5 ACH50 attached — and R403.3.7 duct-leakage testing), superseding the prior 2020-era ordinance's deletion of IRC Chapter 11 in favor of the 2012 IECC. The full text of Ordinance 11-2025 contains no '7 air changes per hour' IRC R303.4 mechanical-ventilation amendment; that earlier provision does not carry forward into the current adopted energy code.; 2024 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; IPMC Section 604.2 still replaces 'NFPA 70' with 'Electrical Code adopted by the State of Colorado' (unchanged from the prior ordinance); 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC), as adopted by reference with local amendments — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; 2024 International Swimming and Spa Code (ISPSC), adopted by reference — supersedes the 2018 edition via Ordinance No. 11-2025; Colorado Model Electric and Solar Ready Code, 2023 Edition, adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 11-2025 (NEW 2026-07-23 finding) — this appears to be Garden City's HB22-1362-triggering energy-code update (see localAmendments note on HB22-1362 below); Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, 2025 Edition, adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 11-2025 (NEW 2026-07-23 finding); National Electrical Code (NEC), 2017 Edition: Garden City maintains its own locally-codified Electrical Code — Municipal Code Chapter 18, Article 3, Section 18-3-10 — adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 04-2020 ('AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE, 2017 EDITION'), effective October 15, 2020, and re-codified without a base-edition change by Ordinance No. 04-2023 (May 2, 2023). Both ordinances build in an auto-update float: 'The effective edition shall be replaced by subsequent edition(s) of the National Electrical Code adopted by the State of Colorado Electrical Board... and such subsequent editions shall be effective one (1) year after' state adoption. The IPMC 604.2 cross-reference to 'Electrical Code adopted by the State of Colorado' does not negate the Town's own codified Chapter 18 Article 3 NEC adoption. What remains true and unchanged: Garden City has NOT established its own local electrical CONTRACTOR licensing board — contractor licensure still runs through the Colorado State Electrical Board (DORA), consistent with the Contemporaneous Review procedure documented elsewhere for this jurisdiction. Sources: https://www.townofgardencity.com/files/3e62c10e8/ordinance-04-2020-2017-national-electric-code.pdf.pdf and https://www.townofgardencity.com/files/3d5c2fc4d/ordinance-04-2023-ordinance-amending-electrical-code.pdf.pdf; Source: Ordinance No. 11-2025 ('AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE, 2024 EDITION...'), read and introduced November 18, 2025, public hearing December 9, 2025, passed and adopted, signed and approved December 9, 2025, effective 30 days after publication (i.e., on or about early January 2026) — repeals Ordinance No. 02-2020 and any amendments thereto in their entirety. Confirmed live on the Town's own site (https://www.townofgardencity.com/files/18063c2b6/Ordinance+11-2025+International+Building+Code.pdf) as of 2026-07-23, listed on the Town's Ordinances and Resolutions page. This is now the governing code-adoption ordinance; Ordinance No. 02-2020 (2018-edition cycle) is retained in individual permitType `sources` arrays below only as superseded historical reference where still cited. Local-amendment SUBSTANCE (climatic/geographic design table values, sewer/gas-piping depths, gas test pressure, CO-detector distance, foundation/soils-report requirement, R309 residential fire-sprinkler deletion, deck/retaining-wall/shingle permit-exempt thresholds) was diffed against the new ordinance's full text and found IDENTICAL in substance; only code-section numbers shifted with the 2024 ICC renumbering in a few places (documented inline below where it affects a citation). HB22-1362's statewide model energy/low-carbon code requirement now DOES appear to have been triggered and satisfied — see the Colorado Model Electric and Solar Ready Code, 2023 Edition entry above and the dated HB22-1362 note in localAmendments.. Local amendments apply — see the Garden City overview page for the full list.

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