Mountain West Permit Cost Index
An annual, source-cited report ranking the region’s cities and states on published permit fees and review timelines — every figure links to the official source it came from. Published base permit fees and published review targets only, never estimates.
2026 edition
jurisdictions ranked
states covered
permit rows analyzed
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Methodology, in brief
Every edition is a frozen, committed snapshot — not a live view that drifts with every data commit — generated from PermitBase’s source-cited permit dataset. Fee rankings compare only verified, flat or waived published fees (never a computed estimate or a force-ranked valuation-tiered fee); speed rankings use only a jurisdiction’s own published review-timeline target. Every ranked row links back to its official source in two clicks. Full methodology, including what’s excluded and why, is printed on each edition.