The Department of Licensing, Inspections and Permits handles New Construction Permitting, Code Enforcement, Health, and Zoning. All Plan Reviews for Residential and Commercial Projects must be done by a Third party Agency in the City. There are two agencies in the City for Plan Review and Third Party Inspections. The agencies are as follows:

The Department issues all City Licensed Contractors, as well as Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Sign Permits. In addition to issuing permits, the Department conducts inspections on new construction, renovations, rental unit facilities and existing residential and commercial properties. Also, annual inspections are conducted on Personal Care Homes, Rooming Houses, Child Day Cares (excluding In Home Day Care Centers), Hotels, and all Eating/Drinking establishments within the City. This Department also administers and issues other licenses such as Amusements, Dog, Dumpster, Eating and Drinking, Peddlers, Entertainment, Gas Pump, Hauling, Parking Facilities, Scales, Scrap Yards, Transient, and Tree Trimming. Permits will only be issued between 8am and 3:30pm on weekdays. In addition the Department will accept applications between 3:30pm and 4:30pm on weekdays, but the application will not be processed until the next business day, at the earliest.  Upon submission, the Department is responsible to issue a decision on all permit applications within 30 business days for commercial permits and 15 business days for residential permits.

Please note that the Department does not handle or issue Business Licensing.