Enoch City building permits
VerifiedDepartment contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Enoch City, Utah.
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Building department
- Address
- 900 East Midvalley Road, Enoch, UT 84721
- Phone
- (435) 586-1119
- Office hours
- Monday–Thursday 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Friday 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM, per enochcityut.gov footer contact block and the city's official Water Meter, Connection & Deposit Info sheet (Rev 06 2015).
- Website
- Official site
- Permit portal
- Apply online at Enoch City's portal
Inspection guide
See how inspections work in Enoch City — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.
Codes adopted
Utah adopts construction codes statewide under Utah Code Title 15A (State Construction and Fire Codes Act), enforced by every jurisdiction. Chapter 4 of Title 15A codifies Legislature-enacted amendments for specific named jurisdictions (e.g., Park City, Salt Lake City, Sandy City) as part of the state construction code. Through June 30, 2026, the editions in force under Utah Code § 15A-2-103 are the 2021 IBC (with Appendices C and J), 2021 IRC, 2021 IPC, 2021 IMC, 2021 IFGC, 2021 IECC, 2021 IEBC, and 2021 ISPSC (residential provisions), together with the 2023 NEC. Effective July 1, 2026, § 15A-2-103 adopts the 2024 editions of the IBC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IECC, IEBC, and ISPSC; the IRC remains the 2021 edition and the NEC remains the 2023 edition. Note: residential energy requirements are modified by statewide amendments, and several Utah jurisdictions document their residential energy provisions at the 2015 IECC level rather than the adopted IECC year — confirm the applicable residential energy code with your local jurisdiction. Always confirm the edition in force with your local jurisdiction.
- Uniform Building Code (UBC) valuation table — Enoch City's own Fee Schedule (hosting.civiclinq.com/enochcity/books/enoch-city-fee-schedule/4.A) states: 'Building permit fees are set by the Uniform Building Code.' This is the same 1997 UBC Table 1-A valuation-fee structure referenced by other small Utah cities in this corpus (e.g. Provo); Enoch's own published fee-schedule language uses 'Uniform Building Code' rather than citing a specific IBC/IRC edition year.
- Statewide baseline per Utah Code § 15A-2-103: Utah's currently adopted statewide construction codes — the 2024 IBC (incl. Appendices C and J), 2024 IPC, 2024 IMC, 2024 IFGC, 2024 IECC, and 2024 IEBC (all in force since July 1, 2026, superseding the 2021 editions), alongside the unchanged 2021 IRC and 2023 NEC — apply to Enoch City by default absent a documented independent city-level code-adoption ordinance; Enoch City's own website does not publish a distinct 'Current Adopted Codes' page listing specific ICC edition years (unlike Cedar City's dedicated codes page), so the state baseline is reported here rather than invented city-specific edition years.
Permit types & fees
Residential Building Permit
Required for new single-family residential construction in Enoch City. The base building permit fee is set by the Uniform Building Code valuation table plus a 1% Utah state surcharge; a separate plan-review fee (a percentage of the building permit fee, scaled by home size) is charged by the city's contracted third-party plan reviewer and cannot be waived. Enoch City's official Fee Schedule (Section 4.A, Permit) states building permit fees are set by the Uniform Building Code on a valuation basis, plus a 1% state surcharge; no distinct EV charger/EVSE fee category was found as of 2026-07-19, so EV charger installation is handled as standard electrical work under this same valuation-based Building Permit.
Residential Addition / Remodel / Garage Permit
Required for additions, remodels, and garage/carport construction on existing residential structures in Enoch City. Uses the same UBC-valuation base fee as new construction, but with a lower plan-review percentage tier than new home construction.
Solar Panel (PV) Permit
Required for residential rooftop solar photovoltaic installations in Enoch City, using the city's dedicated Solar Permit packet.
Commercial Building Permit
Required for new commercial construction in Enoch City. Enoch City publishes a dedicated Commercial Building Permit Packet (rev. 1-21-2025), distinct from its residential and 'Other' (additions/remodels) packets, requiring zoning administrator site-plan sign-off before a building permit can be issued. The base fee follows the same Uniform Building Code valuation table plus 1% state surcharge used for residential permits; no commercial-specific plan-review percentage tier is published in Fee Schedule Section 4.B (which lists only garage/carport, remodel/addition, and new-home-by-size tiers).
Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit
Required for tenant improvement and remodel work inside an existing commercial building in Enoch City. Enoch City does not publish a dedicated tenant-improvement packet or fee line distinct from its Commercial Building Permit Packet and general 'Other' (additions/remodels) permit process — the same base UBC-valuation fee mechanism applies, and site-plan/zoning sign-off requirements are reduced or waived for interior-only work at the Building Department's discretion.
EV Charger / EVSE Permit
Enoch City does not publish a separate EV-charger/EVSE permit or fee category. The city's official Fee Schedule, Section 4.A ('Permit'), prices all building-permit work — including electrical — on the Uniform Building Code valuation table plus a 1% state surcharge, with no distinct EV-specific line item found as of 2026-07-19. EV charger installation is therefore handled as standard electrical work under the same valuation-based Building Permit; no dedicated EV dollar figure is asserted here.
Sign Permit
Enoch City does not publish a standalone Sign Permit application, fee, or process. The city's current, in-force Code of Revised Ordinances, Title 9 'Licensing, Control and Regulation of Business and Construction,' Chapter 600 'Uniform Sign Code,' Section 9.600.647(A) states explicitly: 'No sign permits are required, but authorization for construction may be required by the building official at building permit application.' Where such authorization is required, sign construction documents (dimensions, materials, loads, stresses, anchorage) are filed with the Building Department as part of a standard Building Permit application, per Section 9.600.647(B), and priced under the same Uniform Building Code valuation-based Building Permit Fee (Fee Schedule Section 4.A) plus 1% state surcharge — no distinct sign fee line exists anywhere across Enoch's 9-chapter Fee Schedule (Chapters 1 through 9 reviewed in full, 2026-07-21). Off-premise/billboard signs along the I-15 corridor are separately called out in the Land Use Ordinance as requiring 'a building permit from the building department' (Section 12.2000.2005(B)) — again folded into the same base Building Permit Fee rather than a distinct sign fee.
Fire Sprinkler System Permit
Enoch City does not publish a standalone Fire Sprinkler permit, application, or fee. Fire protection is contracted to the Cedar City Fire Department: per Enoch City's own Fire Department page (enochcityut.gov/fire-department.html), 'Enoch City contracts with Cedar City Fire Department for fire protection and Wildland Fire Interface Management.' As re-checked live on 2026-07-21, that page publishes no fire-sprinkler-specific permit, fee, or inspection content — the only permit it describes is a free Open Burn Permit. Enoch's own city-wide Building Permit Application form (used for Residential, Commercial, and 'Other' permits alike) instead captures fire sprinkler information as a data field within the standard application rather than through a separate permit: the application's cover page asks 'Fire Sprinkler System?: Yes___ No___,' and its Code Analysis section includes a 'Sprinkler System' field alongside Building Height, Occupant Load, Fire Extinguishers, and Fire Hydrants. A full-text search of Enoch's entire Code of Revised Ordinances (all 18 chapters) for the term 'sprinkler' returned zero results, and no distinct fire-sprinkler fee line exists anywhere in the city's 9-chapter Fee Schedule (Chapters 1 through 9 reviewed in full). Cedar City's own Consolidated Fee Schedule — the fire department Enoch actually contracts with — likewise publishes no distinct fire sprinkler fee line, per this corpus's Cedar City jurisdiction entry (last verified 2026-07-21).
Fire Alarm System Permit
Enoch City does not publish a standalone Fire Alarm permit, application, or fee. Fire protection is contracted to the Cedar City Fire Department: per Enoch City's own Fire Department page (enochcityut.gov/fire-department.html), 'Enoch City contracts with Cedar City Fire Department for fire protection and Wildland Fire Interface Management.' As re-checked live on 2026-07-21, that page publishes no fire-alarm-specific permit, fee, or inspection content — the only permit it describes is a free Open Burn Permit. Enoch's own city-wide Building Permit Application form instead captures fire alarm information as a data field within the standard application rather than through a separate permit: its Code Analysis section includes a 'Manual Fire Alarm System' field directly alongside the 'Sprinkler System,' Building Height, Occupant Load, Fire Extinguishers, and Fire Hydrants fields. A full-text search of Enoch's entire Code of Revised Ordinances (all 18 chapters) for the term 'sprinkler' returned zero results and no fire-alarm-specific ordinance section was found either; no distinct fire-alarm fee line exists anywhere in the city's 9-chapter Fee Schedule (Chapters 1 through 9 reviewed in full).
Change of Use / Change of Occupancy Permit
Enoch City does not publish a standalone Change of Use or Change of Occupancy permit. The Building Department's full application set, per the city's own Applications & Forms page (enochcityut.gov/applications--forms.html), is: Residential Permit, Commercial Building Permit, 'Other' Building Permit, Drainage Change Permit, Special Inspection Form, Solar Permit, Cargo Storage Container, and Temporary RV Permit — none titled 'Change of Use.' A change in use or occupant of a commercial space in Enoch City is instead administered through the city's Commercial Business License process: the official 'Application for a Business License in a Commercial Zone' form requires a 'Building Inspector Approval Signature' before a new or renewed commercial business license is issued, priced at the flat $75.00 fee published in Fee Schedule Section 2.B ('Commercial Businesses located in appropriate zoned area — $75.00'). Where a change of use also involves construction, tenant-finish work, or building-systems modification, the project is instead processed through Enoch's existing Commercial Building Permit or Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit (both already documented elsewhere in this file), priced under the same UBC-valuation Building Permit Fee (Fee Schedule Section 4.A) — no distinct change-of-use fee line exists anywhere in the city's 9-chapter Fee Schedule.
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 (2026-05)
- 10units
10 buildings · $2.8M valuation
- Trailing 12 months
- 137units
12 of 12 months reported · #45 in Utah coverage by units
- Year to date (2026 YTD through 2026-05)
- 58units
55 buildings · $13.7M valuation
5 month(s) reported to Census
- Full year 2025
- 135units
135 buildings · $34.7M valuation
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-05 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Utah building activity
Tips & gotchas
- Enoch City is a genuinely independent municipal jurisdiction, separate from both Cedar City and unincorporated Iron County — it has its own Building Department (900 East Midvalley Road, Enoch, UT 84721; (435) 586-1119; inspector@enochcity.org), its own CiviclinQ-hosted fee schedule and ordinances, and its own CityInspect permit portal instance (enoch.cityinspect.com), though builders can also use a shared Iron County-wide CityInspect registration link (utah.cityinspect.com).
- Enoch's Building Department office hours are Monday–Thursday 9:00 AM–4:30 PM and Friday 9:00 AM–1:00 PM.
- Enoch's base building permit fee follows the Uniform Building Code valuation table plus a 1% Utah state surcharge (Fee Schedule § 4.A); the actual per-square-foot UBC valuation table itself is not separately republished on the city's own fee-schedule page.
- Plan review is billed separately from the base building permit fee and is contracted to a third-party reviewer; per December 2023 City Council minutes, this fee cannot be waived by the city even when the underlying building permit fee is waived. Plan review is tiered by project type: garages/carports 10%, remodels/additions 20%, new homes under 2,000 sq ft 30%, 2,000–3,000 sq ft 35%, over 3,000 sq ft 40% — all as a percentage of the building permit fee (Fee Schedule § 4.B).
- Structures under 200 square feet do not require a building permit in Enoch City (Fee Schedule § 4.A).
- Enoch City requires a Utah Prairie Dog Clearance evaluation for new construction, the same Iron County-wide regional requirement documented for Cedar City in this corpus, since Enoch sits within mapped Utah prairie dog habitat.
- A $250 utility deposit is collected alongside building permit and impact fees; it converts to a credit (owner-builder) or is refunded once a Certificate of Occupancy issues and the account is closed.
- Impact fees are substantial and scale sharply with water-meter size: a 1-inch residential meter/ERU is $4,359.00 versus $156,914.44 for a 6-inch meter (Fee Schedule § 6.A, effective dates ranging 2017–2025); the Transportation impact fee for a new single-family detached home is a flat $2,000 per unit effective April 2024.
- No jurisdiction-published plan-review turnaround time (in business/calendar days) was located anywhere in Enoch City's official sources as of 2026-07-08 (fee schedule, building department page, permit packets, or FY2025-26 tentative budget). The residential-building-permit entry applies the Utah Code § 10-20-909 statutory floor (17 business days total: 3-day completeness screening + 14-day plan review) since that statute is scoped specifically to one- and two-family dwelling/townhome construction; all other permit types (additions/remodels, solar) remain honestly null with a note rather than estimated, since the statute does not extend to them.