Commercial Building Permit (New Construction, Additions, Remodels & Tenant Improvements) in Hailey, Idaho

Hailey requires a commercial building permit (new construction, additions, remodels & tenant improvements) for: New commercial construction, commercial additions, or commercial remodels/tenant improvements, filed on the same Application for Building Permit used for residential work, checked COMMERCIAL under New Construction or Remodel; Reviewed under the 2018 International Building Code, adopted at Hailey Municipal Code 15.08.010(A) as amended by the Idaho Building Code Board, including new Appendix O; Construction documents submitted in two or more paper sets (versus electronic-only for residential applications), prepared by an Idaho-licensed architect or structural engineer where required, per Hailey Municipal Code 15.08.020, Section 107.1; Buildings under 20,000 square feet must demonstrate IECC Section C407 Total Building Performance compliance using a COMcheck energy analysis; buildings 20,000 square feet or more must use building-department-approved energy modeling software (eQuest, Trace, Carrier HAP, EnergyPlus, or equivalent), per Hailey Municipal Code 15.08.020(C)(2)(a); A separate Design Review Application fee applies to projects categorized as Commercial or Mixed-Use, billed apart from the Building Permit and Plan Check fees; the City's Design Review process is administered under Hailey Municipal Code Title 17, Chapter 17.06 — the fee schedule confirms this category and its fee, but the chapter's specific applicability triggers for exterior commercial work could not be confirmed in this session because the code library's Chapter 17.06 pages did not render readable text through a browser-header fetch; Electrical and plumbing work is permitted and inspected directly by the State of Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses (DOPL), not the City of Hailey; Fire Department plan review is performed by the City's own Hailey Fire & Rescue Department (which conducts its own plan reviews for new construction according to its department page), billed as part of the Plan Check Fee stack rather than as a separate permit; no evidence was found that Hailey contracts commercial fire plan review out to Wood River Fire & Rescue or any other district. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Hailey Community Development Department — Building Services at (208) 788-9815 before starting work.

In Hailey, the published Building Permit — valuation $1 to $500 is: $27.78. Additional published fees: Building Permit — valuation $1,000,001 and up — $7,971.90 for the first $1,000,000, plus $4.52 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof; Plan Check Fee — 67% of the base Building Permit Fee; Planning Review Fee — 34% of the Plan Check Fee; Hailey Fire Dept. Plan Review Fee — 44% of the Plan Check Fee, where applicable; Design Review Application — Commercial or Mixed-Use — $1,350.00, plus $64.00 per 1,000 gross square feet; Temporary Certificate of Occupancy — Commercial — $600, nonrefundable; Development Impact Fee — Nonresidential (Commercial), per 1,000 sq ft net floor area — $9,864 total (Parks & Recreation $134 + Circulation $7,945 + Fire $1,563 + Police $222); Hailey Clean Energy Deposit — new mixed use, commercial, industrial, or institutional — $1,250 per 10,000 sq ft; Building Permit Extension (180-day extension) — $170. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Idaho Code 39-4117 requires the City to determine whether a commercial application is complete within 20 business days of submission. The City of Hailey has not published a separate full plan-review-to-issuance timeframe beyond this statutory completeness-review requirement.

You'll need: Application for Building Permit; Construction Drawings; Commercial Energy Compliance Documentation; Zoning Review Checklist. Depending on your project, Hailey may also ask for: Design Review Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Hailey requires 4 inspection(s) for a commercial building permit (new construction, additions, remodels & tenant improvements), in order: Foundation / Footings, Framing, Energy Compliance, Final. Schedule each through City of Hailey Community Development Department — Building Services ((208) 788-9815).

Apply through City of Hailey Community Development Department — Building Services at 115 S Main Street, Hailey, ID 83333. Phone: (208) 788-9815, email: yadira.ward@haileycityhall.org. Office hours: Mon–Thu 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (closed weekends and holidays). Official information: https://haileycityhall.org/community-development/building-services/.

No. Commercial new construction and commercial remodels or tenant improvements are filed on the same Application for Building Permit used for residential projects, checked COMMERCIAL, and priced off the same Table 1-A valuation schedule. Commercial projects do carry distinct requirements: two or more paper plan sets instead of electronic submittal, IECC Section C407 energy-efficiency compliance, a Design Review Application fee for Commercial or Mixed-Use projects, a nonresidential Development Impact Fee table, a $1,250-per-10,000-sq-ft Clean Energy Deposit rate, and a $600 nonrefundable Temporary Certificate of Occupancy fee.

The City's own Hailey Fire & Rescue Department conducts plan reviews for new construction in-house, billed as the Hailey Fire Dept. Plan Review Fee (44% of the Plan Check Fee, where applicable) as part of the same Building Permit fee stack — not as a separate fire-district permit.