Juneau

City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department

In short

City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department issues 9 permits we publish for Juneau, last verified 2026-09-14. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Permit	Issuing agency	Fee	Renews	Last checked
Veterinary Practice — State Licenses the Practitioner (Juneau)only if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	No fee	not applicable	2026-09-14
Development Permit / Conditional Use Permitonly if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	Conditional use permits are banded by use class under CBJC 49.85.100(3). Class I at $350.00 covers mobile homes on single lots, agricultural uses under 50,000 square feet, residential structures of four or fewer units, transient structures of twelve or fewer rooms and day care and child care homes. Class II at $500.00 covers commercial, mixed use or enclosed industrial uses with less than 10,000 square feet of building space using less than an acre, residential structures of five to ten units, transient structures of thirteen to thirty rooms, day care and child care centres, and churches and schools. Class III at $750.00 covers commercial or enclosed industrial uses of 10,000 to 20,000 square feet or one to three acres. Class IV at $1,000.00 covers 20,001 to 40,000 square feet or three to six acres. Class V at $1,600.00 covers over 40,000 square feet or six acres and above. An extension of a permit is $250.00 for any class. A non-administrative variance is $400.00 and an administrative variance $120.00. A zone change or comprehensive plan amendment is $600.00, a certification of zoning compliance letter $150.00, a certification of nonconforming status $150.00 and a parking waiver $400.00. Minor development staff review carries no charge where a building permit is required.	not stated in the published fee schedule; an extension is priced at $250.00	2026-09-14
Sign Permitonly if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	$50.00 for the first two signs, and $20.00 for each additional sign, under CBJC 49.85.100(1)(C).	not stated in the published fee schedule; the department decides a complete application within three working days	2026-09-14
Contractor — State Registration and Backflow Testing Apply (Juneau)only if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	No fee	not applicable locally; the state contractor registration is biennial	2026-09-14
Salon and Barber Shop — State Shop Owner License Applies (Juneau)only if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	No fee	not applicable locally; the state shop owner license is biennial to August 31 of odd-numbered years	2026-09-14
Building Permit	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	A valuation table under CBJC 19.01.108.8: $54.00 from $1.00 to $500.00; $54.00 for the first $500.00 plus $2.64 per additional $100.00 to $2,000.00; $93.60 for the first $2,000.00 plus $11.88 per additional $1,000.00 to $25,000.00; $366.84 for the first $25,000.00 plus $8.58 per $1,000.00 to $50,000.00; $581.34 for the first $50,000.00 plus $5.94 per $1,000.00 to $100,000.00; $878.34 for the first $100,000.00 plus $4.62 per $1,000.00 to $500,000.00; $2,726.34 for the first $500,000.00 plus $3.96 per $1,000.00 to $1,000,000.00; and $4,706.34 for the first $1,000,000.00 plus $2.64 per additional $1,000.00. Plan review is charged separately and in addition: fifty percent of the building permit fee for buildings falling under the International Residential Code and sixty-five percent for all other buildings, reduced to sixty percent of that otherwise payable for an identical or mirror-image structure by the same applicant. A pre-manufactured building not inspected by the City and Borough during construction pays fifty percent of the site-built fee. Inspections outside normal business hours are $54.00 per hour or actual cost with a two-hour minimum, and re-inspections, late-requested inspections, additional plan review for revisions and any service with no fee specified are each $54.00 per hour. Grading is priced by volume under 19.01.108.10 to .10.6, for work primarily for grading or grading authorised ahead of a full building permit. Grading plan review is free at 50 cubic yards or less, $25.77 from 51 to 100, $40.57 from 101 to 1,000 and $54.00 from 1,001 to 10,000; then $54.00 for the first 10,000 plus $24.50 per additional 10,000 to 100,000, $274.50 for the first 100,000 plus $13.25 per additional 10,000 to 200,000, and $407.00 for the first 200,000 plus $7.25 per additional 10,000. The grading permit is $25.77 at 50 cubic yards or less and $40.57 from 51 to 100; then $54.00 for the first 100 plus $17.50 per additional 100 to 1,000, $54.00 for the first 1,000 plus $14.50 per additional 1,000 to 10,000, $274.50 for the first 10,000 plus $66.00 per additional 10,000 to 100,000, and $407.00 for the first 100,000 plus $36.50 per additional 10,000 above that. Additional grading plan review and grading inspections with no listed fee are $54.00 per hour with a half-hour minimum, and grading inspections outside business hours and grading re-inspections $54.00 per hour with a two-hour minimum, in each case or the City and Borough's total hourly cost if greater. A permit reviewed under a third-party plan review program approved by the building official has its plan review fee reduced by $500.00, but not below $250.00, under 19.01.108.14.	not stated in the published fee sections	2026-09-14
Food Truck and Vending Permits (street, sidewalk and parkland)	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	The City and Borough code sets no general food truck license fee; what is charged depends on where the truck trades. Sidewalk vending under CBJC 62.10.070(b) is a non-refundable $50.00 filing fee plus a permit fee of $150.00 per month or fractional month, with the first and final month payable on application where the period is three months or more. Street vending under 62.10.050(b) is a non-refundable $50.00 filing fee plus $200.00 per month. An open flame permit for a food vendor is $50.00 per vendor. Vending on CBJ parkland is charged by day and status: a non-profit pays $50.00 for the first operational day and $20.00 for each additional day, a commercial vendor $75.00 and $25.00, and a Marine Park site $1,250.00 per month plus tax. Trading on private property in an allowed district needs a building permit rather than a vending permit, and a sidewalk obstruction permit under 62.10.010 is $100.00.	monthly for street and sidewalk vending; sidewalk applications open October 1 for the following calendar year	2026-09-14
Certificate of Occupancy	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	No fee	one-time; a temporary certificate is time-limited and is not a substitute for an approved final inspection	2026-09-14
Fitness Studio — City and Borough Position (Juneau)only if it applies to you	City and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department	No fee	not applicable	2026-09-14

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Veterinary Practice — State Licenses the Practitioner (Juneau)

No fee applies locally: CBJ Title 20's chapter list names no veterinary chapter, and 12 AAC 02.350 sets fees for veterinarians and veterinary technicians only, with no facility line in the fee chapter. Juneau's Title 08, Animal Control and Protection, reaches pet licensing rather than veterinary businesses: chapter 08.15 provides that 'No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog … unless the dog is licensed as provided in this chapter,' which falls on owners. The owner's fee is set by Resolution No. 2809(am), adopted October 16, 2017 under CBJC 08.50.010 and still the latest animal control fee resolution in the code's resolution table: 'The annual license fee shall be $45.00 for each dog over the age of six months, provided that the fee shall be $20.00 for each spayed female and each neutered male,' halved for dogs acquired after September 1, with a $15.00 late fee for a license issued after March 31. The same resolution prices the transfer of 'an animal establishment permit' at $25.00, but Title 08 as now codified creates no such permit — chapter 08.15 licenses dogs only — so nothing in it attaches to a clinic. A clinic's obligations are the sales tax registration, the development permit and conditional use permit where required, the building permit and the annual fire inspection.

Development Permit / Conditional Use Permit

Juneau's land use fees are among the lowest of the Alaska municipalities covered on this site — a Class II conditional use permit covering a commercial premises under 10,000 square feet is $500.00, against $4,720.00 for the equivalent band in Anchorage. The banding is by floor area and site size rather than by trade, so the same fee reaches a restaurant, a shop, a salon and a fitness studio of comparable size. Childcare is explicitly split across two bands and the distinction is worth noting before choosing premises: a day care or child care home is Class I at $350.00 while a day care or child care centre is Class II at $500.00. Two further provisions catch businesses out. CBJC 49.85.100(22) prices a fee in lieu of parking at $10,000.00 per required off-street space, which dwarfs every other figure on the schedule. And a wireless communication facility is $350.00 plus $500.00 where a special use permit is needed, plus actual costs for technical expert review. Where a fee is not listed, 49.85.100(16) directs the community development director to charge the fee for the most similar listed action, and 49.85.100(17) allows a refund less ten percent where an application is cancelled before review is complete.

Sign Permit

This is the cheapest sign permit of the Alaska municipalities covered on this site — $50.00 covering two signs, against Anchorage's $350.00 for a non-illuminated sign charged per inspection. The process is also quick and the Department commits to it in writing: 'A sign permit application will be reviewed and decided by the department within three (3) working days after receipt of the complete application.' Applicants file both a sign permit application and a development permit application, submitting to permits@juneau.gov or the Permit Center at 230 South Franklin Street. Signs proposed for the Historic District must additionally comply with the Historic District Sign Standards. Exempt window, residential and temporary signs are listed at CBJ 49.45.300.

Contractor — State Registration and Backflow Testing Apply (Juneau)

No fee applies locally: the chapter lists of CBJ Title 20 (Business Regulations) and Title 19 (Building Regulations) name no contractor licensing chapter. The State of Alaska registers contractors instead, at $100.00 to apply and $250.00 for the biennial certificate of registration under 12 AAC 02.180, with a residential contractor endorsement at a further $250.00 and bonding from $5,000 for a handyman whose contract price is $10,000 or less up to $25,000 for a general contractor. What Juneau imposes instead is the permit set and one recurring compliance duty that is easy to miss: the Cross Connection Control Program requires that 'Backflow prevention devices must be tested by a CBJ approved tester each calendar year. A passing test report must be submitted for each device by November 1st of each calendar year.' One benefit runs the other way — a contractor holding a current building permit and a CBJ Builder Sales Tax Exemption Card buys construction services and incorporated materials free of the five percent sales tax.

Salon and Barber Shop — State Shop Owner License Applies (Juneau)

No fee applies locally: the chapter lists of CBJ Title 20 and Title 36 name no cosmetology chapter. Alaska licenses the premises instead: a shop owner license is $150.00 application plus $260.00 license, $410.00 in total, issued for two years and expiring August 31 of odd-numbered years, with a $5.00 fee for a change of location. The state license covers a shop performing hairdressing, barbering, esthetics, manicuring, body piercing, tattooing or permanent cosmetic colouring, and requires a DEC certification of compliance with 18 AAC 23, or a DEC certificate of sanitary standards where body art is performed. A salon's Juneau obligations are the sales tax registration — personal services are taxable at five percent — the development permit and conditional use permit where the district requires one, the building permit for fit-out, the $50.00 sign permit and the annual fire inspection.

Building Permit

The permit trigger expressly includes a change of use, so taking over an existing commercial space for a different purpose needs one even without construction. Valuation is comprehensive under 19.01.108.3, covering 'the total value of all construction work, including materials and normal market labor costs, … including finish work, painting, roofing, electrical, gas, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, elevators, mechanical, fire extinguishing systems, and any other permanent work or permanent equipment.' The plan review split is the detail most likely to be missed: fifty percent for residential-code buildings against sixty-five percent for everything else, charged on top of rather than within the permit fee. The figures date from 2009 — the valuation table, the grading sections and the third-party section all carry the annotation '(Serial No. 2009-16(b), § 2, 9-21-2009)' — and remain the codified text in the Municode version of June 26, 2026. They are also what CBJ itself publishes: the Building Permit Fee Table on juneau.org, marked 'EFFECTIVE: October 22, 2009,' works the valuation table through step by step and matches it at every tier boundary — $54.00 at $500, $878.34 at $100,000, $2,726.34 at $500,000 and $4,706.34 at $1,000,000 — with a commercial plan review column at sixty-five percent of each. The Department's current documents and handouts pages publish no other fee schedule. The grading permit tiers are recorded exactly as codified although they do not join up: the 101 to 1,000 cubic yard tier reaches $211.50 at 1,000 cubic yards while the next tier restarts at $54.00 for the first 1,000, so a project near a tier boundary should ask the Permit Center which figure it applies. Third-party review earns a discount under 19.01.108.14, which provides that the plan review fee 'shall be reduced by $500.00 unless such reduction would result in a fee of less than $250.00 in which case the plan review fee shall be $250.00.' Applications are now filed only through the Civic Access portal.

Food Truck and Vending Permits (street, sidewalk and parkland)

Juneau regulates food trucks by location rather than by license, and the zoning rules are more restrictive than the fees suggest. The Community Development Department sets out the districts in its own words: food trucks are allowed with a building permit in Light Commercial, General Commercial and all Mixed Use districts; allowed with a building permit and Planning Commission approval in D-10, D-15, D-18, Rural Reserve and Industrial; and not allowed at all in D-1, D-3, D-5, D-10SF and Waterfront Industrial. It also states that 'Food trucks are not allowed in right-of-ways and sidewalks' as a general matter, which is why the street and sidewalk vending permits above are separate, location-specific instruments rather than the default route. The Department's three practical questions for a truck are worth recording as they drive the building permit: 'How are you getting your power? How are you getting your water? What are you doing with your gray water?' Parking is required at one space per 200 square feet of restaurant space. Sidewalk vendors must carry at least $1,000,000 of public liability insurance naming the City and Borough as additional insured. The food safety license itself is Alaska DEC's, at $215.00 for a mobile food service or $190.00 for a retail mobile vendor. One 2026 note: Marine Park vending is temporarily relocated to Elizabeth Peratrovich Plaza for the summer season because of construction, at the same $1,250.00 monthly rate.

Certificate of Occupancy

The City and Borough code publishes no separate fee for this certificate. The requirement itself is unambiguous — 19.01.110.1 bars use or occupancy and any change in occupancy classification until the building official issues the certificate, and 19.01.110.2 adds that 'No change in the character of the occupancy of a building shall be made without a certificate of occupancy.' Code § 19.01.110.1 through .4 and the § 19.01.108 fee series list no certificate of occupancy fee, and no provision expressly waives one; ask the Permit Center whether any charge applies beyond the building permit fee. A temporary certificate is available where 'no substantial hazard will result from occupancy … before the same is completed,' and the code is explicit that it 'is not a substitute for an approved final inspection of the entire building.'

Fitness Studio — City and Borough Position (Juneau)

This listing carries no fee: the chapter lists of CBJ Titles 20 and 36 name no fitness, gym or health club chapter, and the fee sections of 12 AAC 02 name no state fitness license. A studio's obligations are the sales tax registration, since services are taxable at five percent, the development permit and a conditional use permit where the district requires one, priced by floor area rather than by trade so that a studio under 10,000 square feet falls in Class II at $500.00, the building permit for fit-out, the $50.00 sign permit and the annual fire inspection the Fire Marshal performs on buildings open to the public.

Contact

Jurisdiction: Juneau
Phone: (907) 586-0715
Website: juneau.org/community-development

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

Building Permit Fee Table, effective October 22, 2009 — the City and Borough's own published table of the permit fee and the residential and commercial plan review fees at each valuation step from $500 to $2,000,000, matching CBJC 19.01.108.8 and 19.01.108.4 at every tier boundaryCity and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
Business Licensing Forms and Fees — the State of Alaska's own $50 per year business licence required of every business under AS 43.70.020(a), with the $25 senior and disabled veteran rates and the December 31 expiryAlaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
CBJ Title 08, Animal Control and Protection, read in the Municode version of June 26, 2026 — chapter 08.15 licensing dogs only, 08.50.010 directing the Assembly to set fees by resolution, and no animal establishment, kennel or veterinary premises permit anywhere in the titleCity and Borough of Juneau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
CBJC 19.01.108.10 to 19.01.108.10.6, grading fees (Serial No. 2009-16(b)), read in the Municode version of June 26, 2026 — the grading plan review and grading permit tables by cubic yards, and the $54.00 hourly charges for additional grading plan review, grading inspections outside business hours, grading re-inspections and grading inspections with no listed feeCity and Borough of Juneau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
CBJC 19.01.108.14, third party plan review fee (Serial No. 2009-16(b)) — the $500.00 reduction in the plan review fee, floored at $250.00, for permits reviewed under a third party plan review program approved by the building officialCity and Borough of Juneau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
City and Borough of Juneau Code of Ordinances, Supplement 167, codified through Serial No. 2026-14 — Title 20 (Business Regulations) and its complete chapter list; Title 36 (Health and Sanitation), which contains no food chapter; CBJC 69.05.020 (sales tax rates and sunsets), 69.05.170 (registration requirement); 19.01.105.1.1 and 19.01.110.1 (permits and certificates of occupancy); 19.01.108.8 (building permit fee table), 19.01.108.4 (plan review percentages) and 19.01.108.15.1 (fire permit fees); 49.15.110 (development permit) and 49.85.100 (the complete land use fee schedule); 62.10.050 and 62.10.070 (street and sidewalk vending)City and Borough of Juneau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
Community Development — the department's own current page for building permits, development permits, certificates of occupancy and the Civic Access permitting portal through which applications are now filedCity and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
Find Your Local Environmental Health Officer — Alaska DEC's own statement that retail-only food activities within the Municipality of Anchorage are regulated by the Anchorage Health Department rather than by DEC, the only such carve-out in the stateAlaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Food Safety and Sanitation Program · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
Food Trucks — the Community Development Department's own current page setting out the building permit and zoning treatment of food trucks, the districts in which they are allowed with or without Planning Commission approval, the districts where they are not allowed, and the prohibition on operating in rights-of-way and sidewalksCity and Borough of Juneau, Community Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
Resolution No. 2809(am), adopted October 16, 2017, establishing the fees for animal control and protection services under CBJC 08.50.010 and repealing Resolution No. 2767 — the $45.00 annual dog license, $20.00 for a spayed or neutered dog, half fee for dogs acquired after September 1, the $15.00 late fee after March 31, and the special license, transfer, duplicate tag, impound, boarding and group license feesCity and Borough of Juneau, Office of the Municipal Clerk · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
Resolution Table of the CBJ Code of Ordinances, current through Resolution No. 4041 (March 9, 2026) — listing Resolution No. 2809 of October 16, 2017 as the most recent resolution establishing animal control and protection feesCity and Borough of Juneau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18

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