Greeley building permits

Tips & gotchas

• City of Greeley is home-rule and runs its own complete Building Inspection program (not a Weld County program) — verified via the City's Community Development and Building Permits and Inspections pages plus Greeley Municipal Code Title 22.
• Colorado has no single statewide building-code edition; only the energy-code floor (HB22-1362) and specific statutes (e.g., ADU enabling law) apply statewide. Always confirm each city's own adopted edition — Greeley's own program (Title 22) is documented here.
• Greeley's adopted codes are all 2021-edition ICC codes (IBC, IRC, IEBC, IPMC, IMC, IPC, IFGC, IECC, IFC) except electrical, which was updated to the 2023 NEC by Ordinance No. 37, 2023 — the most recent of Greeley's code adoptions.
• Greeley uses the International Plumbing Code (IPC), not the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) — this differs from some neighboring Colorado/Mountain West jurisdictions that use the UPC.
• No separate fee schedules were found published for electrical, plumbing, or mechanical permits — Greeley applies a single valuation-based Building Permit Fee Schedule (Sec. 22-33/22-34) across building AND trade permits, unlike jurisdictions (e.g., Billings, MT) that publish per-trade fee tables.
• Plan review fee is 65% of the calculated building permit fee (waived under $25,000 valuation) — separate line item from the permit fee itself, invoiced after the submittal is confirmed complete.
• New construction plan review takes 20 working days; footing/foundation review and additions/remodels review each run separately at 10 working days (City of Greeley Building Permits and Inspections page).
• Effective January 30, 2026, no building permit will be issued for a lot within a subdivision until that subdivision/phase is fully complete and signed off by all required City departments (Public Works, Engineering, Water and Sewer, Stormwater, Fire, Planning, etc.) — a new policy as of this review.
• Ordinary fences up to 7 feet need no building permit; electric fences always need one, at any height, per 2021 IRC Sec. R331 (Greeley Municipal Code Sec. 22-96).
• Demolition requires sign-off from four separate reviewers (Building Inspection, Planning, Historic Preservation, and the state CDPHE for asbestos) before a permit issues — budget lead time; the state asbestos Notification of Demolition carries its own 10-working-day waiting period on top of the city process.
• 2026 Development Impact Fees (Police, Fire, Park, Trails, Storm Drainage, Transportation) apply to new construction effective March 1, 2026, recalculated annually via an Economic Adjustment Factor; Water/Sewer Plant Investment Fees are set separately by the Water and Sewer Board.
• No dedicated ADU (accessory dwelling unit) permit type, checklist, or fee schedule was found published on the City of Greeley Building Inspection site as of this review, despite active 2024-2026 Colorado state ADU legislation (HB24-1152) and local Greeley development-code discussion (Speak Up Greeley 'Accessory Dwelling Code' initiative) — ADU construction is understood to fall under the standard Residential Building Permit plus Planning/zoning review, but a distinct verified ADU permit record was not published separately by the Building Division at the time of research; omitted rather than invented.
• No dedicated solar photovoltaic permit guide, checklist, or fee schedule specific to Greeley was found published on the Building Division site as of this review (distinct from Weld County's separate solar permit application, which does not apply inside Greeley city limits) — solar PV installations are understood to require both a building permit and an electrical permit under the standard valuation-based fee schedule and the 2023 NEC (Article 690 solar photovoltaic systems, and Article 705 for interconnected systems), but a Greeley-specific solar plan-submittal document was not located; omitted rather than invented.
• The City's 2024 Building Permit Fee Schedule (dated 4/26/2023, still the current link on the live Building Permits and Inspections page as of this review) predates the 2026 Development Impact Fee Schedule and FEB 2026 Building Valuation Data also linked from the same page — confirm whether a newer base fee table has since superseded the 2024 schedule before quoting exact permit-fee dollar amounts.
• Greeley's construction trades advisory and appeals board (Sec. 22-40/113.1) covers building, plumbing/mechanical, and electrical trades jointly — a single administrative/appeals structure spans all trade permits, consistent with the single shared fee schedule.