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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' (fetched and read directly 2026-08-02); 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 this file's 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 FeeValuation-based (labor + materials + profit, including electrical/plumbing scope); no TI-specific or general numeric fee table is published by the Town or ProCode (re-confirmed 2026-08-02 across the live Building Permits page and ProCode's La Salle resource page, consistent with this file's 2026-07-06 and 2026-07-23 chases). Contact ProCode (970-305-3161) or Town Hall (970-284-6931) for a project-specific quote.
Not published — contact the department
Construction Use TaxApplies to TI material cost the same as any other permitted work in La Salle
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.

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 this review; 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; 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).. 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.

Sources & verification

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