La Salle building permits

Department contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for La Salle, Colorado.

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Building department

Address: 128 N 2nd Street, La Salle, CO 80645
Phone: 970-305-3161
Email
Office hours: Town of La Salle main line 970-284-6931. Building Inspections direct line 970-305-3161 (inspection requests ext. 1, general ext. 0). Building Official: Jonathan Gesick. Building permit review and inspections are contracted to ProCode Inc., a SAFEbuilt company (regional office: 39 S. Parish Avenue, Suite 220, Johnstown, CO 80534; COemail@safebuilt.com). General town office hours are not published on the Building Permits, Directory, or Municipal Code pages as of this review; not stated rather than assumed.
Website: Official site
Permit portal: Apply online at La Salle's portal

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in La Salle — 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) — per the Town of La Salle Building Permits page: 'The Town of LaSalle has adopted and is currently enforcing the 2018 International Codes, 2012 Energy Conservation Code, and 2020 National Electrical Code.'
2018 International Residential Code (IRC)
2018 International Mechanical Code (IMC)
2018 International Plumbing Code (IPC)
2018 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) (bundled under the page's 'International Codes' reference; not itemized by individual code title on the live page)
2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — the live page names this specifically as '2012 Energy Conservation Code,' an older cycle than the 2018 base I-Codes it is paired with
2020 National Electrical Code (NEC)
2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control model code, dfpc.colorado.gov/WRCB) — listed as adopted on the Town's Building Permits page
Model Colorado Electric and Solar Ready Code (Colorado Energy Office, energyoffice.colorado.gov/building-energy-codes-toolkit) — listed as adopted on the Town's Building Permits page
Note on document currency and code-cycle discrepancy: the Town's Municode-codified Chapter 18 (Building Regulations), as of this review, still recites the 2003 IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC/IFGC, 1999 NEC, and 1997 Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, with a 1977/1978-vintage Colorado energy standard — none of which match the 2018 I-Codes / 2012 IECC / 2020 NEC the Town's actively-maintained Building Permits webpage states it is 'currently enforcing.' Consistent with this corpus's established pattern (e.g. Vail), the live, actively-maintained Building Permits page is treated as the current governing statement of adopted codes, since Municode codification frequently lags the underlying adopting ordinances and La Salle's own current-enforcement statement is unambiguous and specific (exact code years named). The codified Chapter 18 text is retained here only as a source of durable local AMENDMENT language (definitions, frost depth, sleeping-room rules, refund provisions, fee-authorization mechanism) that is very likely still in force, since local amendments of this kind are typically carried forward from cycle to cycle rather than dropped, but the umbrella code EDITIONS themselves follow the live page.
Note on HB22-1362 (statewide energy floor, window July 2023-July 2026): the Town's stated 2012 IECC base energy code edition does NOT itself meet HB22-1362's requirement that jurisdictions updating their code during this window adopt at least the 2021 IECC. However, the Town's Building Permits page separately lists the 'Model Colorado Electric and Solar Ready Code' as adopted alongside the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code — meaning La Salle appears to have layered on the HB22-1362 electric/solar-ready provisions as a standalone addition without upgrading its underlying energy-code base edition to 2021 IECC. This is reported honestly as observed; this file does not assume full HB22-1362 compliance, only that the electric/solar-ready model code specifically has been adopted per the Town's own published list.
MAJOR RE-CHASE UPDATE, 2026-07-23 — Municode reversal: this file's prior methodology (see the two notes above) treated the Town's Municode-hosted codification as a stale 2003-era snapshot and deferred to the live Building Permits webpage for current code editions. A direct re-chase of library.municode.com/co/lasalle on 2026-07-23 found this assumption is NO LONGER CORRECT: La Salle's Municode codification is now current through Ordinance No. 5-2026 (enacted 3-24-2026), online content updated 7-1-2026, and Chapter 18 was comprehensively overhauled by Ordinance No. 19-2025 (adopted 12-9-2025) — confirmed by reading each article's adoption section directly: Sec. 18-18 now adopts the 2024 IBC (not 2018), Sec. 18-43 the 2023 NEC (not 2020), Sec. 18-68 the 2024 IPC (not 2018), Sec. 18-93 the 2024 IMC (not 2018), Sec. 18-143 the 2024 IRC (not 2018), and Sec. 18-166 the 2024 IECC (not 2012 — which would also resolve the HB22-1362 gap flagged in the note above, since 2024 IECC exceeds the 2021 IECC statewide floor). Chapter 18 was also restructured into 16 articles, adding new Article IX (2024 International Fire Code), Article XI (International Property Maintenance Code), Article XII (International Existing Building Code), Article XIII (International Swimming Pool and Spa Code), and Article XVI (Graywater Systems) — none of which are reflected in the Town's own Building Permits webpage, which as of this same re-chase (2026-07-23) still states only '2018 International Codes, 2012 Energy Conservation Code, and 2020 National Electrical Code.' The two Town-controlled channels now directly conflict, and the codified ordinance (more recently dated, and the Town's actual governing law) appears to be the accurate one, while the informational webpage appears to be the stale one — the reverse of this file's original assumption. Local-amendment LANGUAGE spot-checked against the new codification (120 sq ft accessory-structure exemption, 180-day permit expiration/half-fee renewal, 80% refund provisions, sleeping-room definition) was found carried forward unchanged into the 2024-edition articles, so those specific amendment provisions remain reliable. However, a full re-verification of every permitType's code-edition citations, and of the five newly-added articles, was OUT OF SCOPE for this partial-chase pass (which targeted only fee/timeline gaps) and should be treated as a distinct, dedicated follow-up chase rather than assumed complete. Sources: https://library.municode.com/co/lasalle (Chapter 18, Article II Sec. 18-18; Article III Sec. 18-43; Article IV Sec. 18-68; Article V Sec. 18-93; Article VII Sec. 18-143; Article VIII Sec. 18-166 — all citing Ord. No. 19-2025, 12-9-2025).

Permit types & fees

New residential construction activity

New privately-owned residential construction only

Housing 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: 0units
0 buildings · $0 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

La Salle contracts its entire building-permit plan-review and inspection function to ProCode Inc., a SAFEbuilt company — the Town itself does not staff an in-house building department. Direct technical/fee questions to ProCode (970-305-3161) rather than only the Town's general line (970-284-6931).
Code-currency discrepancy: the Town's Municode-codified Chapter 18 still recites 2003-era IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC/IFGC, 1999 NEC, and 1997 dangerous-buildings code text, while the Town's actively-maintained Building Permits webpage states current enforcement of the 2018 International Codes, 2012 IECC, and 2020 NEC. This file follows the live webpage for code EDITIONS (per this corpus's established precedent of trusting actively-maintained pages over stale codification) while retaining the codified local amendment LANGUAGE (frost depth, engineered-foundation, stud/joist spacing, sleeping-room definitions) as very likely still operative. Confirm current code edition directly with ProCode/Town Hall before finalizing a code analysis on a specific project.
La Salle's 2012 IECC energy-code base is OLDER than the HB22-1362 statewide floor (2021 IECC) that applies to jurisdictions updating codes between July 2023 and July 2026 — yet the Town separately lists the Model Colorado Electric and Solar Ready Code as adopted. This is an unusual, honestly-reported combination: electric/solar-ready provisions appear layered onto an older energy-code base rather than accompanying a full 2021 IECC upgrade.
Electrical and plumbing permits are issued LOCALLY by the Town (via ProCode) — Colorado's default DORA-board fallback for jurisdictions without their own program does NOT apply here. Contractors still need current Colorado DORA State Electrical Board / State Plumbing Board licenses (the state licenses the trade), but the Town/ProCode contemporaneously verifies those licenses and is the actual permit-issuing authority, per the Colorado Chapter ICC 'Procedure for Contemporaneous Reviews of Electrical and Plumbing Licenses' (HB19-1086 plumbing, SB19-156 electrical) — the Town has a dedicated 2019 plumbing-specific SOP for this in addition to the general guide.
No current numeric building-permit fee schedule (valuation-tier table) is published anywhere on the Town's website as of this review — the Building Permits page states only the calculation METHOD (valuation-based, including labor/materials/profit and any electrical/plumbing scope) and a flat 2% use tax on material cost; the Development Fees page covers only land-use/planning fees (rezoning, plat, variance, etc.), not building-permit fees. Applicants must contact ProCode or Town Hall directly for a project-specific quote.
The Town does not publish a numeric plan-review turnaround (days or weeks) for any permit category anywhere on its site — checked the Building Permits page, Development Fees page, ProCode's La Salle regional page, and the Municipal Code directly. Every permitType in this file is honestly null/unverified with a documented chase trail rather than an invented figure.
Detached accessory structures (storage sheds) require a permit once they exceed 120 square feet, per the Town's illustrative project list.
Effective March 1, 2026, inspection scheduling moved to the 'Community Connect' platform; older references to a webform should be disregarded going forward.
A previously-linked 'Roofing Requirements' document (lasalletown.com/DocumentCenter/View/337) returned a 404 error on direct re-chase during this review and could not be recovered from the Wayback Machine within this review's scope — flagged rather than silently omitted; contact ProCode directly for current roofing specifications.
The Town's Municode page (library.municode.com/CO/LaSalle) is a JavaScript single-page application that could not be scraped directly via automated fetch (returns an empty shell); the governing Chapter 18 text used in this file was instead retrieved from the Town's own directly-hosted PDF (lasalletown.com/DocumentCenter/View/162).
IMPORTANT 2026-07-23 correction: the Municode SPA note directly above describes why earlier chases relied on the Town's own PDF rather than Municode — but that PDF/earlier Municode read was itself stale. A 2026-07-23 re-chase using the Browser pane (rather than a plain curl fetch) successfully loaded library.municode.com/co/lasalle and found it current through Ordinance No. 19-2025 (12-9-2025) and Ordinance No. 5-2026 (3-24-2026) — MORE current than the Town's own Building Permits informational webpage, which still cites 2018-era codes. See the dated note appended to codesAdopted above for the full code-edition findings (2024 IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC/IECC, 2023 NEC). Do not re-assume Municode is unreachable or stale for La Salle going forward — use the Browser pane (client-side routing), not a raw curl fetch, since curl only returns the SPA shell.
ProCode/SAFEbuilt hosts a LaSalle-specific 'community resource' page (safebuilt.com/about/our-companies/procode/la-salle, dateModified 2026-03-09) with ~18 live PDF handouts covering residential additions, basement finishes, decks/patios/carports, pole barns, re-roofing, and a 'Counter Permits' list plus a 'What Permit Type Requires Plan Review' list. Found and used during the 2026-07-23 re-chase to close several permitType gaps in this file. No numeric fee schedule or numeric review-timeline exists among these documents either — confirms those specific gaps are durable rather than an artifact of not having checked ProCode's own site directly.