Village of Corrales building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Village of Corrales, New Mexico.
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Building department
- Address
- 4324 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM 87048
- Phone
- (505) 897-0502 (fax (505) 897-7217)
- Office hours
- 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; mornings available for walk-in requests, afternoons by appointment only
- Website
- Official site
Inspection guide
See how inspections work in Village of Corrales — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.
Codes adopted
New Mexico sets construction codes statewide by rule, not through home-rule discretion. Under the Construction Industries Licensing Act (NMSA 1978 §§ 60-13-1 et seq.), the state's Construction Industries Commission and Division (CID, within the Regulation & Licensing Department) adopt the technical construction codes codified at New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC) Title 14 — including the state's own Building, Residential, Existing Building, Mechanical, Fuel Gas, Plumbing, Solar Energy, and Swimming Pool codes, and the National Electrical Code (14.10.4 NMAC currently adopts the 2020 NEC; the CID Commission periodically updates individual code chapters, so confirm the current edition with the applicable authority). Per NMSA 1978 § 60-13-44(E), these state codes "constitute a minimum requirement" binding every political subdivision in New Mexico — no city or county may adopt anything less stringent, though a jurisdiction may adopt stricter local amendments. Enforcement authority runs through whichever entity is the project's Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ, defined at NMAC 14.5.1.7.B): under NMSA 1978 § 60-13-41(D)-(F), a municipality or county that employs its own full-time certified building official may self-administer permitting, plan review, and inspection locally (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho, Farmington, and Roswell all operate this way); jurisdictions without a certified building official default to direct enforcement by a CID field office (e.g., Hobbs, Alamogordo). Some jurisdictions run a hybrid — locally certified for some trades while CID directly enforces others (Roswell's electrical permitting, for example, reverted to direct CID administration as of January 1, 2026). Always confirm with the specific jurisdiction whether it or the state CID is the acting AHJ for a given trade before submitting plans.
The Village of Corrales issues its own building/structural permits through its Building Official (Brian Gresham) in the Planning and Zoning Department — it is not a New Mexico Construction Industries Division (CID)… Show full textShow less
The Village of Corrales issues its own building/structural permits through its Building Official (Brian Gresham) in the Planning and Zoning Department — it is not a New Mexico Construction Industries Division (CID) field-office jurisdiction for the building permit itself. Electrical, plumbing and mechanical/HVAC permits and inspections go to the City of Rio Rancho's Building Department, not to the state CID. The Village's 'Building Permits & Inspections' page states: 'The City of Rio Rancho performs mechanical, electrical, and plumbing inspections for the Village of Corrales. The permits and inspections for these disciplines should be coordinated with the prospective subcontractor.' The Village's Building Permit Guide (Application for Construction Permit, revised June 2026, page 5 of 6) adds, under 'Required Inspections': 'Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical Inspections: Permits must be obtained in the City of Rio Rancho Building Department unless directed otherwise by the Building Official.' Plan on two application tracks and two sets of inspection scheduling on any job with trades. Sources: corrales-nm.org/342/Building-Permits-Inspections; Village of Corrales Application for Construction Permit (Building Permit Guide, rev. June 2026).
The Village of Corrales' own Building Permit Guide states the Building Official enforces the codes 'The Village of Corrales & Construction Industries Division (CID) currently enforces the following codes' (verbatim… Show full textShow less
The Village of Corrales' own Building Permit Guide states the Building Official enforces the codes 'The Village of Corrales & Construction Industries Division (CID) currently enforces the following codes' (verbatim heading), listing: 2021 New Mexico Commercial & Residential Building Code, 2021 International Building Code, 2021 International Residential Code, 2012 Solar Energy Code, New Mexico Energy Conservation Code, 2021 New Mexico Plumbing and Mechanical Code, 2021 Uniform Mechanical Code (IAPMO), 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code (IAPMO), 2012 Uniform Swimming Pool, Spa, Hot Tub Code, 2021 New Mexico Electrical Code, 2020 National Electrical Code, 2012 NMESC / National Electrical Safety Code, ICC/ANSI A117.1-1998, Liquefied Petroleum Gas Standards, NFPA 58-1998 (LP Gas), NFPA 57, NFPA 54 (National Fuel Gas Code), NFPA 52, NFPA 501-C, Manufactured Housing Requirements, and Modular Structures. Source: Village of Corrales Application for Construction Permit, Building Permit Guide, page 6 of 6 (rev. June 2026).
- Building permit administration is enforced under the Village's adopted Building Code, Ordinance No. 08-012, per the Village's own Building Permits & Inspections page: 'The Building Official/Inspector enforces the provisions of the adopted Building Code (Ord 08-012).' Source: corrales-nm.org/342/Building-Permits-Inspections.
- Village of Corrales Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Land Use (Article II, Zoning) governs zoning compliance required before building permit issuance, including lot coverage, setbacks, and accessory-structure/dwelling-unit definitions. Source: Village of Corrales Application for Construction Permit; Village Code Sections 18-28, 18-29, 18-37, 18-203 (Ordinance No. 21-04, adopted June 15, 2021).
Permit types & fees
Construction Permit (New Residential Construction)
Required for new single-family home construction in the Village of Corrales. The Village's own Building Official (Brian Gresham), housed in the Planning and Zoning Department, self-administers building/structural plan review and permit issuance — Corrales does not route the structural building permit itself through the state Construction Industries Division or through Rio Rancho. All plans must be submitted electronically as PDFs via email to the Building Official.
From$23.50Addition / Remodel / Alteration Permit
Required for additions, remodels, and alteration/repair work to existing single-family residences in Corrales. Uses the same Application for Construction Permit as new construction, with a scope of submittal reduced for non-structural alteration/repair work.
From$23.50valuation-basedRe-Roof Permit
Required for re-roofing work in Corrales, using the Village's combined Application for Construction Permit (which includes a dedicated 'Re-Roof' project-type checkbox). Roof conversions (changing roof type/pitch) are separately valued for fee purposes.
From$23.50valuation-basedFence / Wall Permit
Required for fences and walls in Corrales, using the Village's combined Application for Construction Permit. Fences placed within the required setback area are charged a distinct, higher flat fee reflecting the additional plan review and inspection time the Village budgets for setback verification.
$165.00Solar Permit (Ground-Mounted and Roof-Mounted)
Required for solar photovoltaic installations in Corrales. The Village's combined Application for Construction Permit distinguishes ground-mounted from roof-mounted systems, with a substantially higher flat fee for ground-mounted installations reflecting the additional structural/foundation and zoning review involved.
From$150.00Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permit
The Village of Corrales does not publish a dedicated EV charger/EVSE permit application, fee line, or webpage — the Building Permits & Inspections page, the Application for Construction Permit/Building Permit Guide (rev. June 2026), and the Building Permit Fees and Rates schedule name no electric vehicle charging stations, EV chargers, or EVSE. An EV charger installation is electrical work, and under the Village's own governance model, electrical permitting and inspection for Corrales is NOT handled by the Village itself — it is routed to the City of Rio Rancho Building Department under an interlocal service arrangement, the same referral documented in the solar-pv-permit entry for solar's electrical interconnection portion. The City of Rio Rancho's own live Electrical Permit fee form publishes a real, currently-in-force fee table (no EV-specific line, but a catch-all 'items not listed' minimum plus a base permit fee and administration fee) that governs this exact referral pathway.
From$33.00Sign Permit
Required for any sign displayed for longer than 60 days in the Village of Corrales, per the Village's own Application for Sign Permit / Sign Permit Guide. Commercial and home occupation signs are charged a fee based on sign face area; short-term temporary signs in the agricultural/rural-residential and historical zones are exempt from the permit requirement. Applications are reviewed by the Building Inspector and/or the Planning & Zoning Administrator for conformance with the Village's sign ordinance (Village Code Chapter 8).
$2.00Fire Sprinkler & Fire Alarm System Permit
The Village of Corrales does not publish a dedicated, standalone fire-sprinkler or fire-alarm system permit application, plan-review checklist, or system-specific fee on its own website — not on the Building Permits & Inspections page, the Forms Directory, or the Village's own current Schedule of Fees. What IS published in the Village's live Schedule of Fees (Updated September 24, 2024) is a locally administered 'Fire Department Fees' section covering Fire Inspections (tiered by structure square footage) and a Hazardous/Flammable Materials permit — meaning fire-related inspection and permitting in Corrales is handled by the Village's OWN Corrales Volunteer Fire Department, NOT referred to the City of Rio Rancho the way electrical/plumbing/mechanical trades are (per the governance-model documentation for this jurisdiction), and not confirmed to be referred to the New Mexico State Fire Marshal's Office either. Village Code Chapter 16 ('Fire Protection and Prevention'), Article IV (Fire Code), Sec. 16-84 (Appendix) confirms the Village has its own adopted fire-code chapter, but the Municode hosting of the Corrales Code of Ordinances serves section text only through its client-side application, so the specific sprinkler/alarm system-permit procedure within Chapter 16 is not independently confirmed here.
From$10.00Change Of Use / Certificate Of Occupancy
A straightforward change in a structure's occupancy (with no additional parking or site alteration triggered) is handled by the Village's Building Official as part of the general Application for Construction Permit process -- the Village's own Building Permit Guide states any owner who intends to 'change the occupancy of a building or structure shall first apply to the Building Official and obtain the required permit.' A change of use that WOULD require additional parking and/or any alteration or addition to the site is instead routed through a Site Development Plan Permit reviewed by the Planning & Zoning Commission under Village Code Sec. 18-45(b), culminating in a Planning & Zoning-issued 'Certificate of Occupancy (Compliance)' distinct from the Building Official's construction-completion Certificate of Occupancy documented elsewhere in this record.
From$5,000,000valuation-basedCommercial Building Permit (Construction Permit — Commercial)
Commercial construction in the Village of Corrales is permitted through the SAME Application for Construction Permit used for residential work — the form's 'Type of Application' line offers a 'Commercial' checkbox alongside Residential, HOB, and the project-type boxes (Fence/Wall, Remodel, Addition, Re-Roof, Pool, Solar, Garage). The Village's own Building Official (Brian Gresham) self-administers commercial building/structural plan review and permit issuance, exactly as for residential — Corrales is a locally certified jurisdiction for the building/structural permit and is NOT a direct New Mexico Construction Industries Division (CID) field-office jurisdiction for it; electrical, plumbing, and mechanical/HVAC trade permits and inspections are routed to the City of Rio Rancho Building Department under the Village's interlocal arrangement. What makes the commercial track genuinely different from residential: (1) the plan review fee is 75% of the building permit fee instead of 50%; (2) valuation is set from the Village's adopted IBC occupancy-group Square Foot Construction Costs table (e.g., B Business, M Mercantile rows), with shell-only buildings valued at a 20% deduction; (3) commercially used/zoned projects generally require Site Development Plan approval by the Planning & Zoning Commission under Village Code Sec. 18-45(b) before occupancy; and (4) per the Village's own Building Permit Guide (rev. June 2026), 'Commercial and Municipal zoned properties are also required to obtain a Certificate of Occupancy from the Planning & Zoning Administrator upon completion of approved site development plan' — a second CO on top of the Building Official's construction CO. Commercial zoning in Corrales is deliberately scarce: the village is predominantly A-1/A-2 agricultural/rural-residential, with commercial use confined to the small Neighborhood Commercial (C), Professional Office (O), and Municipal (M) zone districts.
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New residential construction activity
New privately-owned residential construction onlyHousing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).
- Latest month (2026-07)
- 95units
95 buildings · $20.1M valuation
- Trailing 12 months
- 832units
12 of 12 months reported · #3 in New Mexico coverage by units
- Year to date (2026 YTD through 2026-07)
- 566units
566 buildings · $123.3M valuation
- Full year 2025
- 1,019units
912 buildings · $204.6M valuation
County-wide figures: Corrales is an incorporated village within Sandoval County. stateFips 35 and countyFips 043 match the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 ANSI county reference file, which lists NM|35|043|00929113|Sandoval County|H1|A. No separate incorporated-place FIPS is confirmed for Corrales here -- Rio Rancho, in the same county, is placeFips 63460 -- so the Corrales place code is left blank rather than guessed.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-07 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All New Mexico building activity
Tips & gotchas
- Corrales splits permitting between two agencies. The Village self-administers the structural/building permit through its own Building Official, but electrical, plumbing, and mechanical/HVAC permitting and inspection go to the City of Rio Rancho's Building Department under an interlocal arrangement — not to the state Construction Industries Division, and not to Corrales itself. Both the Village's Building Permits & Inspections page and its Building Permit Guide/Construction Permit Application (rev. June 2026) state this. Plan on coordinating with both offices on any project with trade work.
- Corrales effectively prohibits accessory dwelling units (ADUs/casitas): Ordinance No. 21-04 (adopted June 15, 2021) explicitly bans using any accessory structure as 'a second or independent dwelling unit,' closing a loophole where residents had added kitchens to legally built garages/workshops/studios to create unauthorized second units. This is a meaningfully different rule from neighboring Rio Rancho, which explicitly permits ADUs up to 900 sq ft under its own zoning code.
- All plans must be submitted electronically as PDFs via email to the Building Official (bgresham@corrales-nm.org) — in-office applications are accepted, but plans still must be submitted electronically.
- The Village of Corrales has no municipal water or sewer for the large majority of lots; expect on-site well and septic, including a Liquid Waste Disposal Permit from the New Mexico Environment Department's Rio Rancho office, with a 100-foot minimum separation between any septic tank/field and an existing well.
- Lot coverage is capped at 35% of the lot (new construction plus all existing structures and paved surfaces); setbacks are 25 feet front and 10 feet side/rear (intensive agriculture requires 25 feet on all sides); maximum structure height is 26 feet to the ridgeline or parapet.
- No local wind-speed, snow-load, seismic-design-category, or frost-depth design-criteria table is published anywhere on the Village's own site, unlike neighboring Rio Rancho and Los Alamos County, which each publish their own figures. Ask the Village for the design criteria that apply to your project.
- The residential plan review fee is 50% of the building permit fee in Corrales — lower than the 65% rate charged by both Rio Rancho and Los Alamos County for the same fee category.
- Properties west of the Corrales Main Canal require an engineer- or architect-sealed Grading and Drainage Plan under Village Code Sec. 18-160 to 18-172, reflecting the Village's acequia/irrigation-ditch drainage network — a distinctive local requirement tied to Corrales' agricultural heritage along the Rio Grande.
- No numeric review-timeline commitment is published anywhere on the Village's site for any permit type covered here — not on the Building Permits & Inspections page, in the Building Permit Guide, in the Fees Schedule, or in the Forms Directory.
- Corrales' agricultural (A-1/A-2) zone districts permit raising livestock and fowl, with excrement/drainage containment requirements, but the Village publishes no numeric standard for livestock density-per-acre, corral setbacks, or stable size in the readily accessible sections of the Code of Ordinances. For deeper A-1/A-2 zoning detail, contact the Village Planning and Zoning Department directly (505-897-0502) or consult the full Code of Ordinances hosted at library.municode.com.