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Commercial Remodel / Tenant Finish Permit in La Salle, Colorado

Required for commercial remodels and tenant finish (tenant improvement) work in La Salle. 'COMMERCIAL REMODEL/TENANT FINISH' is a distinctly named permit category on ProCode/SAFEbuilt's published 'Requires a Plan Review' handout — separate from NEW COMMERCIAL BUILDING and COMMERCIAL ADDITION — confirming TI work is recognized as its own permit type at plan-review intake, though it runs through the same unified process as every other La Salle permit (Community Core application, ProCode plan review, valuation-based fee, 2% use tax). No TI-specific fee schedule, submittal checklist, or timeline is published; the naming on ProCode's handout is the extent of the published differentiation.

Reviewed 2026-08-02 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Formal plan review is required — ProCode/SAFEbuilt's 'Requires a Plan Review' handout explicitly itemizes 'COMMERCIAL REMODEL/TENANT FINISH'; TI work is never processed over-the-counter
  • Governed by the IBC as adopted (2018 per the Town's live page; 2024 per the current Municode codification, Ord. No. 19-2025), plus the International Existing Building Code — Chapter 18's December 2025 overhaul (Ord. No. 19-2025) added a new Article XII adopting the IEBC, directly relevant to work in existing commercial buildings; full verification of that new article's text was flagged in the codesAdopted notes as a dedicated follow-up
  • Health Department pre-approval before permit issuance applies to TI/remodel scope, not just new construction: ProCode's handout requires county health-department plan approval for 'remodeling of existing operations' of restaurants, delis, coffee shops, bars, catering, hotels, grocery/convenience stores, food manufacturing/warehouses, health-care facilities, daycares, schools, and pools — for La Salle this is the Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment (970-304-6410, weldhealth.org)
  • Electrical and plumbing contractors must hold current Colorado DORA licenses, registered with the Town/ProCode and subject to contemporaneous verification, with commercial sites an explicit field-review emphasis; a commercial electrical service change tied to a TI is itself a plan-review-required permit type
  • Application submitted through the Town's Community Core online permitting system; hard copy of reviewed/stamped plans required on the job site

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Fee schedule

Commercial Remodel / Tenant Finish Permit Fee
The governing document is the Town's own '2026 Fee Schedule, Effective 1/1/2026' (lasalletown.com/DocumentCenter/View/1815/2026-Uniform-Fee-Schedule), a 12-page Document Center PDF not linked from… Show full citationThe governing document is the Town's own '2026 Fee Schedule, Effective 1/1/2026' (lasalletown.com/DocumentCenter/View/1815/2026-Uniform-Fee-Schedule), a 12-page Document Center PDF not linked from the Building Permits page, the Development Fees page, or ProCode's La Salle resource page. Its 'BUILDING PERMIT FEES' section (based on 'APPENDIX L 2018 IRC') gives the full valuation-tier base-fee table and applies 'Non-Residential Construction — 65% of Permit fee' plus a '$50.00' Commercial 'Administration Fee' on top. The schedule does not itemize tenant finish/remodel separately from new commercial construction — both fall under the single 'Non-Residential Construction' category, consistent with La Salle's single unified fee method across project types (no TI-specific multiplier or discount is published; applying the same formula as new commercial construction is the most defensible reading of the schedule as published, not an assumption of a distinct unpublished TI rate). No plan-review turnaround/day-count figures appear anywhere in this 12-page document — it resolves only the fee question, not the timeline (see reviewTimelineNote). Contact ProCode (970-305-3161) or Town Hall (970-284-6931) to confirm project-specific valuation classification.
Non-Residential Construction: 65% of the Appendix L (2018 IRC) valuation-tier base permit fee, plus a $50.00 Commercial Administration Fee
Construction Use Tax
Applies to TI material cost the same as any other permitted work in La Salle. Show full citationApplies to TI material cost the same as any other permitted work in La Salle. The Town's 2026 Uniform Fee Schedule (Document Center View/1815, effective 1/1/2026, found 2026-08-02) additionally specifies the valuation basis used to compute this 2% tax: 50% of the calculated project cost (via provided labor+material cost or the ICC BVD Data table) or the provided material cost, whichever is greater.
2% of total material cost

Review timeline

Plan review
Not published — contact the department

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Inspection process

  1. 1

    Rough Electrical / Plumbing / Mechanical

    Trade rough-ins within the tenant space before concealment; contemporaneous DORA license review may occur — commercial sites are an explicit emphasis

  2. 2

    Framing / Wall Cover

    New partitions and structural alterations before drywall, where scope includes them

  3. 3

    Final Inspection

    Completed tenant space verified against approved plans prior to occupancy of the altered space

See the full La Salle inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Tenant finish is a named plan-review category in La Salle ('COMMERCIAL REMODEL/TENANT FINISH' on ProCode's handout) but nothing beyond the name is published — no TI checklist, fee table, or timeline. Treat ProCode (970-305-3161) as the sole authority for scope-specific requirements and budget for a formal review cycle, not counter issuance.
  • Restaurant, bar, coffee-shop, grocery, daycare, and similar tenant build-outs have a hard sequencing constraint: Weld County DPHE must approve plans BEFORE the Town releases the building permit, per ProCode's own handout ('hold building permits... until the Health Department has approved their plans'). Submit to the health department (970-304-6410) in parallel with or ahead of the Town application.
  • Work in existing commercial buildings may now fall under the International Existing Building Code — added as new Chapter 18 Article XII by the Town's December 2025 code overhaul (Ord. No. 19-2025) even though the Town's informational webpage still describes only the 2018 I-Codes. Ask ProCode whether IEBC compliance paths (prescriptive/work-area/performance) are being applied to TI scopes.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. ProCode's Health Department Review Information handout requires Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment plan approval before the start of construction for new construction OR remodeling of restaurants, delis, bars, catering operations, grocery/convenience stores, and similar facilities — and instructs that building permits be held until that approval is in hand. Weld County DPHE: 1555 North 17th Avenue, Greeley, 970-304-6410.

In La Salle, the published Commercial Remodel / Tenant Finish Permit Fee is: Non-Residential Construction: 65% of the Appendix L (2018 IRC) valuation-tier base permit fee, plus a $50.00 Commercial Administration Fee. Additional published fees: Construction Use Tax — 2% of total material cost. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

La Salle does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of La Salle Building Inspections (contracted to ProCode Inc. / SAFEbuilt) at 970-305-3161 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Building Permit Application; Tenant Finish / Remodel Plans for Plan Review. Depending on your project, La Salle may also ask for: Health Department Plan Approval (Weld County DPHE). See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

La Salle requires 3 inspection(s) for a commercial remodel / tenant finish permit, in order: Rough Electrical / Plumbing / Mechanical, Framing / Wall Cover, Final Inspection. Schedule each through Town of La Salle Building Inspections (contracted to ProCode Inc. / SAFEbuilt) (970-305-3161).

Apply through Town of La Salle Building Inspections (contracted to ProCode Inc. / SAFEbuilt) at 128 N 2nd Street, La Salle, CO 80645. Phone: 970-305-3161. 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 the last verification; not stated rather than assumed.. Official information: https://www.lasalletown.com/2169/Building-Permits.

La Salle, Colorado has adopted: 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; A note on which code edition actually governs. The Town's codified Chapter 18 (Building Regulations) 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 and 2020 NEC that the Town's actively-maintained Building Permits webpage states it is 'currently enforcing.' The live Building Permits page is treated as the governing statement of adopted codes here, because codification frequently lags the underlying adopting ordinances and the Town's current-enforcement statement names exact code years. Design to the live page's editions, and confirm with the Building Department if the difference matters to your project. The codified Chapter 18 text is retained as a source of durable local amendment language — definitions, frost depth, sleeping-room rules, refund provisions, the fee-authorization mechanism — which is likely still in force, since amendments of that kind are typically carried forward from cycle to cycle.; 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 record 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.; La Salle's Municode codification (library.municode.com/co/lasalle) is current through Ordinance No. 5-2026 (enacted 3-24-2026), with online content updated 7-1-2026, and Chapter 18 was comprehensively overhauled by Ordinance No. 19-2025 (adopted 12-9-2025). Per each article's adoption section: 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 also resolves the HB22-1362 gap flagged in the note above, since the 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 this is reflected on the Town's own Building Permits webpage, which still states only '2018 International Codes, 2012 Energy Conservation Code, and 2020 National Electrical Code.' The two Town-controlled channels therefore directly conflict; the codified ordinance — more recently dated, and the Town's actual governing law — appears to be the accurate one, and the informational webpage the stale one. Local-amendment language carried forward unchanged into the 2024-edition articles (the 120 sq ft accessory-structure exemption, 180-day permit expiration/half-fee renewal, 80% refund provisions, and sleeping-room definition), so those specific amendment provisions remain reliable. 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).. Local amendments apply — see the La Salle overview page for the full list.

Yes, at the category level: ProCode/SAFEbuilt's published plan-review handout itemizes 'COMMERCIAL REMODEL/TENANT FINISH' as its own permit type, distinct from new commercial buildings and commercial additions. It runs through the same Community Core application and valuation-based fee process as all other La Salle permits, and always requires formal plan review.

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