Commercial Building Permit in Unincorporated Sevier County, Utah

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• "The building official is responsible for overseeing all commercial and residential building permit regulations, fees, and inspections" — quoted directly from Sevier County's Building/Planning/Zoning department index page; there is no separate commercial division or process.
• "Building plans for new homes and commercial buildings must be drawn to scale" — the county publishes one unified plans checklist covering both, per its official Building Plans page.
• No dedicated commercial building-permit fee amount or valuation-based fee table could be independently verified: the only public 'Fee Schedule.pdf' linked from the county's Planning and Zoning page covers zoning/land-use fees only (Board of Adjustment appeal, conditional use permit, PUD, subdivision, temporary use, zoning change, etc.), not building-permit fees. County Commission Resolution 2025-3-1 ('Updating the County Fee Schedule,' adopted 3/24/2025) is referenced in the March 24, 2025 Commission Minutes but its itemized exhibit was not independently locatable — the same gap already documented for the residential-building-permit entry in this record.
• Commercial fees are not published anywhere accessible: the CityInspect portal is login-gated with no public fee page; the March 24, 2025 Commission agenda packet has no fee exhibit attached; the county's Fee Schedule.pdf yields no commercial fee figures; and Sevier County Code Chapter 35 (Fee Schedules) confirms by its own Editor's Note ('The fees will be published separately') that itemized fees are deliberately kept out of the codified ordinance text and set instead by a separately-published Commission-approved schedule that is not available online. No commercial-specific plan-review turnaround time is published either.
• Unlike Richfield — which contracts commercial plan review to a private firm under a 2021 RFP with a 10-business-day SLA (see Richfield's commercial-building-permit entry) — unincorporated Sevier County runs its Building, Planning and Zoning Department entirely in-house, with no contracted outside plan-review firm and therefore no city-style plan-review SLA of the kind Richfield publishes. Supporting evidence: (a) no Sevier County RFP titled 'Building Inspector and Plan Review Services' or similar exists in the utah.gov Public Notice Website archive under any phrasing — RFPs of this kind there belong to other Utah jurisdictions (North Ogden City, Nephi City, Tremonton City, Francis City; the North Ogden notices at utah.gov/pmn/sitemap/notice/908521.html and noticehistory/120653.html are North Ogden City Council postings, not Sevier County's); (b) the county's own Human Resources 'Building Department' page (sevier.utah.gov/departments/county_departments/human_resources/building_department.php) lists four IN-HOUSE job classifications — Building Official & Zoning Administrator, Building Inspector (Limited/Combination/Senior), Building Administrative Assistant/Permit Technician, and Zoning Enforcement Officer/Inspector — consistent with county employees, not a contracted outside firm; (c) Sevier County Planning & Zoning Commission minutes (Jan 2026) independently confirm two named county staff by title: Jason Mackelprang as Building Official/Zoning Administrator and Trevor Peterson as Building Inspector II — real in-house personnel, not a contracted reviewer's name; (d) no Sevier County connection exists to Beacon Code Consultants (the contracted firm used by Rich County); (e) the one Sevier County professional-services contract near this topic — a 'Professional Services Agreement with Ensign Engineering,' approved 8/11/2025 — is for LAND SURVEYING ('setting section corners'), funded by a state grant, and wholly unrelated to building plan review.
• No standalone Change-of-Use Permit or Certificate-of-Occupancy-verification permit/fee, separate from this Building Permit, is published for unincorporated Sevier County. The county's Fee Schedule (Appendix C, posted on its Planning and Zoning page) lists Board of Adjustment Appeal ($200), Conditional Use Permit (tiered $35/$100/$175, apparently cell-tower-scoped per a handwritten annotation on the source document), Excavation Bond, PUD ($300), Subdivision, Temporary Use Permit ($75), Youth Home ($450), and Zoning Change ($300) — no 'change of use,' 'occupancy,' or 'land use permit' line item appears. Sevier County's Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 14.28 Nonconforming Uses) only restricts EXTENSION or ENLARGEMENT of a nonconforming use without a special permit from the Board of Adjustment (§ 14.28.010, citing § 14.20.040) — it does not create a distinct fee or application for an ordinary conforming-to-conforming change of use. Sevier County Code § 150.01 (Ord. 2022-2-1, passed 2-28-2022; hosted at codelibrary.amlegal.com) locally codifies the International Building Code as the '2018 edition, as amended' and contains no locally amended Certificate of Occupancy or change-of-occupancy section — but the GOVERNING edition for enforcement is the 2024 IBC, which superseded the 2021 IBC statewide effective July 1, 2026 under Utah Code § 15A-2-103(1)(a); the county has not re-codified § 150.01 to reflect the statewide edition change. Any change-of-occupancy review follows the 2024 IBC's own default provisions administered through the same general Building Permit. Confirm with the Building Official, (435) 893-0420, before assuming no permit is needed for a specific change-of-use project.