Deck / Covered Patio / Carport Permit in Severance, Colorado

Yes. Both attached and detached decks and pergolas require a building permit per the Town's What Needs a Permit guide, and the Town publishes a dedicated Uncovered Decks & Porches guide detailing required submittal content (site plan, house attachment, guardrails, footings, cross-section deck plan).

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. 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; Site Plan, House Attachment Detail, Guardrail Detail, Footing Detail, Cross-Section Deck Plan. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Severance requires 3 inspection(s) for a deck / covered patio / carport permit, in order: Footing, Frame/Rough, 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.