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Commercial Tenant Improvement / Tenant Finish Permit in Richfield, Utah

Required for tenant improvement / tenant finish work inside an existing commercial building in Richfield. The city's permitting materials do not separate tenant improvement from new commercial construction: both fall under the 'Large Building Permit Application' (house, garage, commercial, etc.) filed via the utah.cityinspect.com portal, and both are covered by the same 10-business-day commercial plan-review commitment in the city's 2021 Plan Review and Building Inspection Services RFP. That 10-business-day figure is a genuine city-specific SLA rather than a misapplied residential-statute figure — Utah Code § 10-20-909 scopes only to residential structures. richfieldut.gov's Forms & Applications page no longer lists the CityInspect/DocHub Large/Small Building Permit links, which affects the intake-portal citation for TI filings exactly as it does for new commercial construction, since both file through the same track. See the tips and the commercial-building-permit entry for full detail.

Reviewed 2026-08-02 · Source

When you need this permit

  • Tenant improvement, tenant finish, or remodel work inside an existing commercial building, filed under the 'Large Building Permit Application' track
  • Any structural, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical change, per Richfield's official FAQ general permit-trigger language
  • Utah law requires commercial building plans to be designed, drawn, and stamped by a Utah Licensed Architect or Engineer (Utah Code §§ 58-22-305 and 58-3a-304 — the exemption from stamped plans applies only to one- and two-family dwellings, not commercial structures)

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Fee schedule

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Review timeline

Plan reviewRichfield’s published plan-review target
10–10 business days

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Inspection process

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    Building, Electrical, Mechanical & Plumbing

    Inspections administered by the Richfield City Building and Zoning Department; a Building Permit Number must be provided when scheduling any inspection.

See the full Richfield inspection guide — scheduling & re-inspection fees →

Tips

  • Richfield does not publish a separate tenant-improvement permit type or fee track — TI/remodel work inside a commercial building files through the same 'Large Building Permit Application' as new commercial construction.
  • No dedicated commercial building-permit fee amount is verifiable from published sources. Richfield's fee-bearing PDFs ('Small Building Permit' and 'Impact Fees', both linked from richfieldut.gov/forms-applications) are hosted on DocHub's client-rendered viewer rather than as directly downloadable documents — the underlying 'Small Building Permit' document is a single page last updated 2021-04-20 — and no fee schedule or budget document exists elsewhere on richfieldut.gov or in the domain's archived history. A Utah Public Notice Website (utah.gov/pmn) search returns no Richfield-specific Consolidated Fee Schedule notice. This is the same gap documented for the residential-building-permit entry in this jurisdiction, which carries the fuller detail; tenant improvements share the identical fee-bearing documents.
  • The Building Department table on richfieldut.gov's Forms & Applications page no longer lists 'Large Building Permit Application' (CityInspect) or 'Small Building Permit Application' (DocHub) — it now lists only 'Encroachment Permit,' a new 'Permitted Use Application' (hosted on xpressformsbuilder.com), and 'Impact Fees.' An archived 2025-10-29 capture of the same page shows both links still present as recently as that date, so this is a genuine, recent change. The utah.cityinspect.com registration URL and the DocHub PDF page both still resolve directly, so neither system has been decommissioned — they have simply been delinked from this page. Whether the new 'Permitted Use Application' relates to building-permit intake has not been confirmed. The same applies to the commercial-building-permit entry, since TI files through the same track. Confirm the current TI-permit intake procedure directly with the Building and Zoning Department (435-896-6439) before relying solely on the CityInspect/DocHub citations elsewhere in this entry.

Frequently asked questions

Richfield requires a commercial tenant improvement / tenant finish permit for: Tenant improvement, tenant finish, or remodel work inside an existing commercial building, filed under the 'Large Building Permit Application' track; Any structural, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical change, per Richfield's official FAQ general permit-trigger language; Utah law requires commercial building plans to be designed, drawn, and stamped by a Utah Licensed Architect or Engineer (Utah Code §§ 58-22-305 and 58-3a-304 — the exemption from stamped plans applies only to one- and two-family dwellings, not commercial structures). If your project isn't listed, confirm with Richfield City Building and Zoning Department at (435) 896-6439 before starting work.

Richfield's published plan-review target for a commercial tenant improvement / tenant finish permit is 10–10 business days.

You'll need: Large Building Permit Application (CityInspect online portal). Depending on your project, Richfield may also ask for: Building Permit Application (paper form, alternate). See the required-documents checklist on this page for details on each.

Richfield requires 1 inspection(s) for a commercial tenant improvement / tenant finish permit, in order: Building, Electrical, Mechanical & Plumbing. Schedule each through Richfield City Building and Zoning Department ((435) 896-6439).

Apply through Richfield City Building and Zoning Department at 75 East Center Street (basement level), Richfield, UT 84701. Phone: (435) 896-6439. Office hours: Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Official information: https://richfieldut.gov/forms-applications/.

Richfield, Utah has adopted: 2024 International Building Code (IBC), including Appendices C and J — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026 under the Utah Uniform Building Standard Act (Utah Code Title 15A); Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a). Richfield, as a Utah municipality, is bound to the statewide State Construction Code per Utah Code § 15A-2-103 and does not separately codify its own edition (its own FAQ/Forms pages, live-checked 2026-07-16, do not state any code edition at all); 2021 International Residential Code (IRC) — REMAINS CURRENT statewide code; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(b) did not change this edition in the 7/1/2026 amendment (consistent with the same statewide code confirmed on Murray City's official Building Division page, though Murray's own page has separately been found to contradict itself elsewhere — not relied on here beyond the general statewide-cycle confirmation); Appendix AQ of the 2021 IRC — statewide per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(c); Richfield does not separately itemize this, added here per statute; 2024 International Plumbing Code (IPC) — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(d); 2024 International Mechanical Code (IMC) — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(e); 2024 International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC) — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(f); not itemized in Richfield's own materials (which cite only the statewide statute generally), added here per statute since this record had previously omitted it entirely; 2024 International Existing Building Code (IEBC) — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(i); 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) with Utah amendments, single unsplit statewide edition — CURRENT statewide code as of 7/1/2026; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(h); Residential provisions of the 2024 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) — statewide per Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(n); not itemized in Richfield's own materials, added here per statute since this record had previously omitted it entirely; 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) — current statewide electrical code; Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(g) did NOT change this edition in the 7/1/2026 amendment; NOTE (2026-07-16 re-verification): The Utah Code § 15A-2-103 version effective 7/1/2026 (superseded 1/1/2027) took effect 15 days before this re-verification. This entry previously described the 2024-cycle codes in future tense ('takes effect July 1, 2026'); that date has now passed, so IBC/IPC/IMC/IFGC/IECC/IEBC/residential ISPSC are now stated as CURRENT (2024/2024/2024/2024/2024/2024/2024), while IRC (2021) and NEC (2023) remain unchanged and were already correctly stated. Richfield publishes no city-specific code-edition page (its FAQ and Forms & Applications pages, live-checked 2026-07-16, do not mention code editions at all), so this record continues to rely solely on the statewide statute rather than a lagging city page — there is no city-page conflict to record for Richfield.. Local amendments apply — see the Richfield overview page for the full list.

No distinct tenant-improvement application or fee track is published. Tenant improvement work inside a commercial building in Richfield is filed as a 'Large Building Permit Application' — the same track used for new commercial construction — via the utah.cityinspect.com portal.

Sources & verification

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