Grading Permit in Sunland Park, New Mexico

Sunland Park requires a grading permit for: Prior to grading, notify the Community Development Department for a pre-inspection at (575) 589-3631; Complete the Grading Permit Application specifying intended use of site, flood zone, legal description, owner/contractor info, estimated cut/fill (cubic yards), and acreage tier; Select permit type: Clearing & Access (20% of total fee), Pre-Final Grading (40%), or Final Grading (100%), or Borrow/Waste; $300,000 minimum combined single-limit liability insurance required for all permits on sites larger than one (1) acre; A copy of the permit must be kept at the job site at all times; No grading on weekends or holidays unless authorized in advance by the City Building Inspector (call (575) 589-3631 before 12:00 p.m. for weekend/holiday grading authorization); Permits (other than Borrow/Waste) are valid for one year from issuance; extensions must be requested one month prior to expiration, in writing. If your project isn't listed, confirm with City of Sunland Park Community Development Department — Building Inspections Division at (575) 589-3631 before starting work.

In Sunland Park, the published Clearing and Access Grading Permit — Tier 1 (0-5 acres) is: $74. Additional published fees: Clearing and Access Grading Permit — Tier 7 (50+ acres) — $162; Pre-Final Grading Permit — Tier 1 (0-5 acres) — $148; Pre-Final Grading Permit — Tier 7 (50+ acres) — $325; Final Grading Permit — Tier 1 (0-5 acres) — $369; Final Grading Permit — Tier 7 (50+ acres) — $812; Grading First/Second Extension — 30% of Net Payment (each); Illegal Grading — Double Fee. These are the jurisdiction's own published figures — see the fee schedule table and source citations on this page.

Sunland Park's published plan-review target for a grading permit is 7–10 business days.

You'll need: Grading Permit Application. See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Sunland Park requires 2 inspection(s) for a grading permit, in order: Pre-Grading Inspection, Final Grading Inspection. Schedule each through City of Sunland Park Community Development Department — Building Inspections Division ((575) 589-3631).

Apply through City of Sunland Park Community Development Department — Building Inspections Division at 1000 McNutt Rd, Suite G, Sunland Park, NM 88063 (City Hall: 1000 McNutt Rd, Sunland Park, NM 88063). Phone: (575) 589-3631, email: Hector.Rangel@sunlandpark-nm.gov (Acting Community Development Director). Office hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (City Hall operational hours, per City of Sunland Park Contact page). Official information: https://sunlandpark-nm.gov/community-development/.

Sunland Park, New Mexico has adopted: The City of Sunland Park self-administers building permitting through its own Community Development Department / Building Inspections Division — permits are issued by the City's own Building Inspector, NOT by the New Mexico Construction Industries Division (CID). Confirmed by: (1) the City's Development Fee Schedule (effective July 1, 2024), footnote **: 'The City of Sunland Park has adopted the utilization of the International Code Council (Uniform Building Code) for implementing the Building Valuation Data (BVD) to determine building permit fees in accordance with its fee table and formulas'; (2) the City's own Grading Permit Application form, header 'CITY OF SUNLAND PARK ... COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT ... BUILDING INSPECTIONS DEPT.', which repeatedly references the 'City Building Inspector' as the approving/enforcing official; (3) the City's Land Development Code (Title 10), Section 10-4-6.11 'Compliance With Building Codes And Permits': 'A building permit shall be acquired from the building City of Sunland Park inspection office prior to commencing construction on any structure, building, or improvement'; and Section 10-4-10.1 (Fences): 'No fence or wall shall be constructed or altered until a building permit for such erection or alteration shall have been issued by the BUILDING INSPECTOR ... Refer to Title 9, Building Regulations for Building Permit process and regulations.' This contrasts with jurisdictions such as Alamogordo, NM, which are directly CID-administered because they lack a certified local building department — Sunland Park operates its own.; The City references its own Title 9 ('Building Regulations') of the Sunland Park Municipal Code as the governing building-permit-process title (cited in Land Development Code Section 10-4-10.1), but Title 9's full text was not found publicly hosted on the City's own website (sunlandpark-nm.gov) as a standalone PDF, nor retrievable via Municode's library/API for the 'nm/sunland_park' client (library.municode.com/nm/sunland_park resolves to a JS-rendered app shell with no static ordinance text retrievable via direct HTTP fetch, curl with/without browser headers, or Wayback Machine — no snapshot exists per the Wayback CDX availability API as of 2026-07-03). GENUINELY UNPUBLISHED (see report): the specific I-Code edition years (e.g., which cycle of IBC/IRC/IPC/IMC/NEC) adopted by ordinance in Title 9 could not be independently confirmed beyond the fee schedule's generic reference to 'International Code Council (Uniform Building Code)' Building Valuation Data.; New Mexico statewide minimum building code context (for comparison/authority-model purposes only, not directly enforced here since Sunland Park self-administers): the state's baseline codes are the 2021 New Mexico Commercial/Residential Building Codes (NMAC 14.7.2/14.7.3, based on the 2021 IBC/IRC), 2021 NM Plumbing Code (NMAC 14.8.2), 2021 NM Mechanical Code (NMAC 14.9.2), and 2020 NM Electrical Code (NMAC 14.10.4, based on the 2020 NEC), per NM RLD Construction Industries Division's published Rules, Laws, and Building Codes page — a self-administering municipality like Sunland Park must enforce codes at least as stringent as this state minimum, but the City's specific locally-adopted edition years are the Title 9 text described as unpublished above.. Local amendments apply — see the Sunland Park overview page for the full list.