Mobile
City of Mobile Building, Engineering and Environmental Services (Build Mobile)
In short
City of Mobile Building, Engineering and Environmental Services (Build Mobile) issues 3 permits we publish for Mobile, last verified 2026-09-08. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate of Occupancy | City of Mobile Building, Engineering and Environmental Services (Build Mobile) | $100 a temporary Certificate of Occupancy, or a change of occupancy where no work is performed and no permit is issued; no separate fee where a building permit is already being issued for the same work | one-time, per issuance | 2026-09-08 |
| Conditional Use Permit or Special Exceptiononly if it applies to you | City of Mobile Building, Engineering and Environmental Services (Build Mobile) | $500 a Planning Commission Conditional Use Permit; a Board of Zoning Adjustment Special Exception is the same $500 for a commercial application ($250 residential), plus postage and legal-ad costs billed separately | one-time, per request | 2026-09-08 |
| Commercial Building Permit | City of Mobile Building, Engineering and Environmental Services (Build Mobile) | $5.50 per $1,000 of valuation for the first $50,000, then $4.50 per $1,000 above that, for new construction, additions, alterations and repairs alike (a $25 minimum applies, with no fee at all for $1,000 or under unless an inspection is required). Commercial valuation is set from the construction contract or notarized documentation rather than a fixed per-square-foot table. Plan review is a $100 base, escalating to $200, $500, $1,000 and $2,000 on repeated re-submittals. Reinspection is $50/$75/$100 for the first, second and third-or-later visit; weekend or after-hours inspection is $200 for up to four hours. | one-time, per project | 2026-09-08 |
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
Certificate of Occupancy
Zoning, tree, fire-final and engineering as-built sign-offs are all required before either a Certificate of Occupancy or a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy issues.
Conditional Use Permit or Special Exception
Only triggered where the zoning district does not already permit the intended use as of right — the Unified Development Code's use table lists veterinary clinics and day care facilities among the uses that can require this step in some districts. A routine business opening in an already-correctly-zoned space instead only needs the no-cost Zoning Approval Certificate; confirm with Planning and Zoning (251-208-5895) whether a specific address and use actually requires this permit before budgeting for it.
Commercial Building Permit
Cite buildmobile.org, not cityofmobile.gov's own /pdf/permit_fee_schedule.pdf link — that city-hosted copy still serves the superseded 2006 ordinance this 2022 ordinance replaced. The dollar figures matched where compared, but buildmobile.org is the current, legally operative source.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Mobile
- Phone
- (251) 208-5895
- Website
- www.buildmobile.org/
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.
- City of Mobile — Board of Zoning Adjustment Application and fee scheduleCity of Mobile, Build Mobile · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
- City of Mobile — Building Codes Permit Fee Schedule Ordinance 28-052, adopted November 8, 2022City of Mobile, Build Mobile · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
- City of Mobile — Commercial Certificate of Occupancy FAQ, February 2024City of Mobile, Build Mobile · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
- City of Mobile — Planning Commission Application and fee schedule, revised October 2025City of Mobile, Build Mobile · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
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