This page provides key information about the different types of land use permits issued by the Growth Management Department and the Fire Department.

The following City departments issue land use permits:

1. Growth Management Department, Land Use & Environmental Services Division (Land Use) - Includes presubmittals, land use compliance certificates, site plans, subdivisions, deviations, variances, and similar approvals.
2. Growth Management Department, Land Use & Environmental Services Division (Environmental) - Includes natural features inventories, environmental impact analyses, environmental management permits, and similar approvals.
3. Growth Management Department, Building Inspection Division - Includes all permits required to build, renovate, or expand a structure. Also includes retaining walls.
4. Fire Department - Issues a variety of permits related to property and life safety, including fire alarm systems, fireworks displays, fire suppression permits, hood suppression permits, tent permits, BDA/DAS permits and more. A Life Safety Sheet will be required for the Fire Plan Review process.

The Growth Management Department partners with a team of staff from other City divisions and departments to review applications and issue permits, including Planning, Traffic, Police, Building, Gas, Electric, Water, Solid Waste, School Board, and Fire. Each of the eleven divisions and departments listed above will review your project based on the development standards in the City Code for which it is responsible.

We strive to make the development process straight forward. Of course, you’re always welcome to speak directly with a specific reviewer that offered a comment on your project. However, our development process is designed to provide one stop shopping through our electronic review process which provides all reviewer’s comments through our digital portal in real time. Also, all of our review meetings are staffed with senior members of each department. That benefits you because it brings all of your project’s reviewers together in one room, instead of you having to call eleven staff members individually. Each project is reviewed by a coordinated team of City staff. By gathering all of our staff in one meeting to discuss your project with you, we’ve found that it creates opportunities to creatively problem solve and to quickly facilitate your project towards approval.