If one of your plans for spring is to spruce up your yard with decks, outbuildings, fences, and other structural improvements, make sure you know what kind of work requires a building permit and what you can do without one.
In general, you need a building permit if you want to:
In general, you need a building permit if you want to:
- Build any kind of dwelling
- Finish an attic, garage or basement to add living space
- Add a shed, garage, carport, or other structure if it is ATTACHED to the home
- Add a shed, garage, carport, or other structure if it is greater than 200 square feet
- Re-roof an existing building
- Build a retaining wall that is measured 4 feet high or more from the bottom of the footing to the top of the wall
- Add any attached patio cover, carport, or porch
- Build a deck more than 12 inches high or put in a fence more than 6 feet high
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