Commercial Tenant Finish / Remodel Permit in Severance, Colorado

Severance requires a commercial tenant finish / remodel permit for: Building permit application describing project scope, square footage, total project valuation, electrical valuation, surrounding-space use, construction type, and occupancy group; Architectural plans (stamped by a Colorado-licensed architect or engineer) required, including floor plan, wall section details, building section, fire-rating details, and code summary; Structural plans required for any structural changes (bearing wall removal/openings, floor systems for storage, etc.); Electrical plans required for added circuits, service upgrades, or emergency lighting, including load calculations, one-line diagrams, and fault-current analysis; Mechanical plans required for any HVAC equipment changes, relocation, or replacement of ductwork/refrigeration piping; Plumbing plans required for any changes to sewer, drains, vents, water piping, roof drains, or gas piping; Documentation showing compliance with the 2024 IECC required; All plan sheets must bear the original seal of a Colorado-licensed architect or engineer per C.R.S., unless exempted under section 12-4-112 C.R.S.. If your project isn't listed, confirm with Town of Severance Building & Permits Department (Planning Services, Attn: Building Department) at 970-692-7315 before starting work.

In Severance, the published Building Permit / Inspection Fee is: Valuation-based, determined by SAFEbuilt Colorado. Additional published fees: Use Tax — 3% assessed on 60% of Total Valuation of Improvement as determined by SAFEbuilt; Transportation Impact Fee (Commercial) — $12,105.00 per 1,000 sq ft; Police Impact Fee (Commercial) — $5,680.00 per 1,000 sq ft. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Severance does not publish a plan-review timeline for this permit. Contact Town of Severance Building & Permits Department (Planning Services, Attn: Building Department) at 970-692-7315 for current turnaround.

You'll need: Building Permit Application; Architectural, Structural, Electrical, and Mechanical/Plumbing Plans; 2024 IECC Compliance Documentation. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Severance requires 2 inspection(s) for a commercial tenant finish / remodel permit, in order: Rough Electrical/Mechanical/Plumbing, Final Inspection. Schedule each through Town of Severance Building & Permits Department (Planning Services, Attn: Building Department) (970-692-7315).

Apply through Town of Severance Building & Permits Department (Planning Services, Attn: Building Department) at 3 S. Timber Ridge Parkway, P.O. Box 339, Severance, CO 80546. Phone: 970-692-7315, email: building@townofseverance.org. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. General Permit Clerk / Town Hall line also published as 970-686-1218 (fax 970-686-6250) on Building Department PDF forms; primary Building Department contact line is 970-692-7315. Plan review and inspections are contracted out to SAFEbuilt Colorado, which uses its own contact channel (see inspections note).. Official information: https://www.townofseverance.org/173/Building-Permits.

Severance, Colorado has adopted: 2024 International Residential Code (IRC) — Town of Severance 'Design Criteria Town of Severance' document (SAFEbuilt/Town primary source, DocumentCenter/View/1106), Residential Construction section; 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) — same source, Residential Construction section; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — same source, listed under both Residential and Commercial Construction sections; 2024 International Building Code (IBC) — same source, Commercial Construction section; 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — per the 2024 Client Design Criteria document (SAFEbuilt/Town, Commercial Construction section); HOWEVER, the Town's own codified Municipal Code (library.municode.com/co/severance, Chapter 18, Article 4, Sec. 18-4-10, successfully retrieved live via browser rendering on 2026-07-23) states: 'The International Plumbing Code, 2018 Edition... is hereby adopted by reference as the Town of Severance Plumbing Code' (Ord. 2019-07 § 4; Ord. No. 2025-27, § 6, enacted Dec. 9, 2025) — i.e. the codified ordinance readopted/carried forward the 2018 IPC edition even in the same Dec. 9, 2025 recodification that moved most other codes to 2024. The codified Municipal Code (the Town's actual adopted law) is treated as authoritative over the SAFEbuilt client-facing summary sheet for this fact; IPC is 2018, not 2024, in Severance.; 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — per the 2024 Client Design Criteria document (SAFEbuilt/Town, Commercial Construction section); HOWEVER, the Town's own codified Municipal Code (Chapter 18, Article 3, Sec. 18-3-10, retrieved live 2026-07-23) states: 'The International Mechanical Code, 2018 Edition... is hereby adopted by reference as the Town of Severance Mechanical Code' (Ord. No. 2025-27, § 4, enacted Dec. 9, 2025) — the same Dec. 9, 2025 recodification ordinance that adopted 2024 IBC/IRC/IECC/IFGC/IPMC/IEBC left IMC at the 2018 edition. The codified Municipal Code is treated as authoritative over the SAFEbuilt summary sheet; IMC is 2018, not 2024, in Severance.; 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — same source, Commercial Construction section; 2024 International Energy Code — same source, Commercial Construction section (listed as a separate line from the 2024 IECC entry under Residential; the Town's document does not clarify whether these are intended as the same document cited twice or two distinct adoptions, so both are recorded as they appear on the primary source); 2024 Pool and Spa Code — per the 2024 Client Design Criteria document (SAFEbuilt/Town, Commercial Construction section); HOWEVER, the Town's own codified Municipal Code (Chapter 18, Article 12, Sec. 18-12-10, retrieved live 2026-07-23) states: 'The International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, 2018 Edition... is hereby adopted by reference as the Town of Severance Swimming Pool and Spa Code' (Ord. No. 2025-27, § 9, enacted Dec. 9, 2025). The codified Municipal Code is treated as authoritative; ISPSC is 2018, not 2024, in Severance. (No standalone swimming-pool permit-type entry exists in the permitTypes array, so this correction is recorded here only; the 2024 Swimming Pools Guide, DocumentCenter/View/203, is a generic SAFEbuilt trade guide and does not itself state a code edition or fee/timeline figure.); 2024 International Property Maintenance Code — same source, 'Other Adopted Codes' section; 2024 International Existing Building Code — same source, 'Other Adopted Codes' section; State Codes (as listed on the Town's own Design Criteria document): Electric Ready, Solar Ready, EV Ready — consistent with Colorado HB22-1362's statewide energy/electrification floor (2021 IECC-derived electric-ready, solar-ready, EV-ready provisions, effective window July 2023-July 2026); confirmed independently by the '2026 SAFEbuilt Residential Application Checklist' (DocumentCenter/View/1149), which requires EV-ready (min. 40A circuit within 3ft of a car space), Solar-ready (roof-plan solar zones, prewire routing, truss dead-load verification), and Electric-ready (pre-wire location/note and full electric-appliance load calculation for new single-family, two-family, and townhome dwellings) documentation for permit submittal, and by the New Commercial Plan Submittal Procedure (DocumentCenter/View/182), which states 'EV ready, Solar ready and Electric ready are now required to be shown on plans.'; Note on a separate SAFEbuilt-published document: the '2023 NEC Photovoltaic System Submittal Requirements' guide (DocumentCenter/View/210, last revised 08.11.2023) states 'Applicable current codes are the 2023 NEC, 2018 International Codes' — this conflicts with the Town-specific 2024 Client Design Criteria document and appears to be a generic/stale SAFEbuilt template not yet updated to Severance's current 2024 code cycle; the Town's own jurisdiction-specific Design Criteria document (2024, explicitly labeled 'Severance') is treated as authoritative for this record rather than the generic PV guide.; A note on sourcing: a Citizen Portal article — a third-party, AI-generated meeting summary, not an official Town/.gov document — describes a Severance Town Council work session at which building official Russ Weber (SAFEbuilt) briefed Council on the 2024 ICC model codes and state-mandated changes, and reports that no formal adoption ordinance/vote occurred at that specific work session; Council directed staff to return with a formal adoption package excluding wildfire-resiliency provisions pending clarification. Because it is not an official source, that article is not cited for any fact here; it is noted only as context for why a formal Chapter 18 adoption-ordinance number from Municode's Severance library (library.municode.com/co/severance) is not independently confirmed. The Town's own primary-source Design Criteria and permit-guide PDFs (all dated 2026 or explicitly labeled '2024 IRC'/'2024 International Codes') serve as the governing record of the currently-adopted codes.; The codified Municipal Code on Municode states: 'SEVERANCE MUNICIPAL CODE Codified through Ordinance No. 2025-27, enacted December 9, 2025' (Supp. No. 15, online content updated June 29, 2026); that ordinance repealed and re-enacted Chapter 18 Articles 1-10 and 12 in full. Ord. No. 2025-27 is the December-2025 code-adoption ordinance, and cross-checking every article against the SAFEbuilt Design Criteria PDF surfaces three code-edition corrections: IMC and IPC are codified at the 2018 edition (not 2024) per Ord. No. 2025-27 §§ 4 and 6, and the Swimming Pool and Spa Code is codified at the 2018 edition (not 2024) per Ord. No. 2025-27 § 9 — see the corrected codesAdopted entries above. IBC, IRC, IECC, IFGC, IPMC, and IEBC are independently confirmed at the 2024 edition per the same ordinance (Sec. 18-1-10, 18-2-10, 18-8-10, 18-6-10, 18-9-10, 18-10-10), and the NEC is confirmed at 2023 (Sec. 18-4-40, Ord. No. 2023-09). Chapter 18, Article 11 (Building Permits, Sec. 18-11-10 'Issuance' and Sec. 18-11-20 'Surcharge') contains only permit-issuance criteria and the administration surcharge (30% of inspection fees or $30.00, matching the Administration Fee line above) — no permit-type-specific review-timeline SLA and no demolition-specific fee or process are codified anywhere in Chapter 18, confirming from the Town's own adopted law (the strongest available primary source) that the review-timeline and demolition-fee gaps noted across these permit types are genuine publication gaps. Separately, Ordinance No. 2025-08 adopted the 2024 International Fire Code.. Local amendments apply — see the Severance overview page for the full list.

Per the 2026 Fee Schedule, commercial nonresidential projects are assessed Transportation Impact Fees ($12,105.00 per 1,000 sq ft) and Police Impact Fees ($5,680.00 per 1,000 sq ft); Park and General Government Impact Fees are $0.00 for all nonresidential categories including Commercial.