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 file.
• 2026-07-23 re-chase (still unrecoverable): the same new avenues documented in this file's residential-building-permit entry were tried for commercial fees specifically — the CityInspect portal (login-gated, no public fee page), a Wayback CDX orphan-PDF scan, the March 24, 2025 Commission agenda packet (no exhibit attached), a fresh visual re-render of Fee Schedule.pdf, and a full read of Sevier County Code Chapter 35 (Fee Schedules), which 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 remains unlocated online. No commercial-specific plan-review turnaround time was found either.
• 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, fetched from 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) 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 (full section text confirmed by live browser render of codelibrary.amlegal.com, 2026-07-23, which previously returned only section titles to automated fetch tools) — 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.