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Sacramento County Planning & Environmental Review

In short

Sacramento County Planning & Environmental Review issues 2 permits we publish for Sacramento County, last verified 2026-09-28. 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
Zoning Compliance / Land Use Permitsonly if it applies to youSacramento County Planning & Environmental ReviewUse Permit (Zoning Administrator/Project/Board of Supervisors level) $545, rising to $561 in the following fiscal year; Variance $570 to $572; Development Plan Review $487 to $671; Rezone $304.one-time per application2026-09-28
Alcohol Sales — County Conditional/Minor Use Permit and PCN Letteronly if it applies to youSacramento County Planning & Environmental ReviewThe underlying zoning entitlement is charged at the standard Use Permit rate — $545, rising to $561 the following fiscal year — the same fee table that prices every other Use Permit in the county's zoning code. A separate Letter of Public Convenience and Necessity (PCN), needed for certain off-sale and on-sale license types in an area of over-concentration or high crime, is priced by a dedicated Board of Supervisors resolution set to offset the County's own processing costs, rather than fixed as a dollar figure in the zoning code text itself.one-time per application/letter2026-09-28

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

Zoning Compliance / Land Use Permits

Every business in the UNINCORPORATED AREA of Sacramento County must comply with the County's zoning code, administered by Planning & Environmental Review — a business inside one of the 7 incorporated cities instead follows that city's own zoning code and permit fees. A Use Permit at the Zoning Administrator, Project, or Board of Supervisors level costs $545 (rising to $561 the following fiscal year), a Variance costs $570 to $572, Development Plan Review costs $487 to $671, and a Rezone application costs $304. These entitlements are triggered by uses the zoning code does not allow by right in a given zone — for example a stand-alone bar, a drive-through, or certain outdoor storage for an auto-repair use — and the specific trigger depends on the zone and the use in question. A Use Permit obtained here also underlies the County's Alcohol Sales Conditional Use Permit process for a business seeking certain California ABC license types (see that record).

Alcohol Sales — County Conditional/Minor Use Permit and PCN Letter

This process applies only in the UNINCORPORATED AREA of Sacramento County — each incorporated city runs its own ABC-referral process for a business inside city limits. California ABC License Types 1 (Beer Manufacturer), 2 (Winegrower), and 48 (On-Sale General – Public Premises) are typically subject to a Conditional Use Permit, use standards, or locational standards from the County before the applicant submits to ABC, priced at the same $545-to-$561 Use Permit rate charged for any other zoning entitlement in the county. Off-sale license types 20/21 and on-sale types 40/42 generally instead require a Letter of Public Convenience and Necessity (PCN) when the location sits in an area of over-concentration or high crime, decided at a public hearing before the Community Planning Advisory Council and the Board of Supervisors; the PCN's own fee is set by a dedicated Board of Supervisors resolution meant to offset the County's processing costs, a real and confirmed fee mechanism even though the resolution's specific dollar figure is not published on the County's own pages. A restaurant qualifying as a 'bona fide public eating place' with only incidental beer or wine sales is typically treated more permissively under the zoning code than a stand-alone bar, which the code defines as a premises that does not qualify as a bona fide eating place.

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Sources

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

  1. Alcohol Sales — County Conditional/Minor Use Permit and Letter of Public Convenience and Necessity (PCN) process, unincorporated area onlySacramento County Planning & Environmental Review · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
  2. Zoning Code, Chapter 3 — Use Permit, Variance, Development Plan Review and Rezone application types and feesSacramento County Planning & Environmental Review · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28

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