Colorado Springs
El Paso County Public Health, Environmental Health Services
In short
El Paso County Public Health, Environmental Health Services issues 2 permits we publish for Colorado Springs, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Care Facility Inspection | El Paso County Public Health, Environmental Health Services | Plan Review & Pre-op $135 plus $53/hour; Review of Potential Establishment $190; Pre-op Inspection $185; Follow-up Inspection $203; Room Change $190. Routine inspection, by facility type: Child Care Center $366, School Age program $256, Pre-school $291, Group Home $269, Residential Camp $472, Residential/Day Treatment $282. Routine inspections recur every 2 years. | routine inspection every 2 years | 2026-09-08 |
| Retail Food Establishment — County Plan Review and Ancillary Fees | El Paso County Public Health, Environmental Health Services | Plan Review Application $100, plus Plan Review Time at $62/hour, not to exceed $580. A Change of Ownership Inspection is $120 (an additional inspection is $65). Special Event Permits: limited menu $248 (one event) or $340 (multiple events); full menu $298 or $425. A Basic Food Safety Class is $15 per person. | not stated in the published fee schedule | 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
Child Care Facility Inspection
Imposed by El Paso County Public Health as the delegated implementer of Colorado's state child-care licensing, in addition to (not instead of) the state license itself. Separately, the City requires a development plan or conditional use approval before a commercial building may be used as a day care center — subject to Citywide Development Impact fees, but no specific dollar amount for that zoning review is published.
Retail Food Establishment — County Plan Review and Ancillary Fees
This covers El Paso County Public Health's own plan-review and ancillary fees, directly confirmed from its Board of Health fee schedule. That same Chapter 3 Fee Schedule prices the base 'Retail Food Establishment License' line item itself as 'Per Section 25-4-1607 C.R.S.' rather than printing an independent county figure — the county has adopted the statutory schedule directly rather than set its own rate. The amount is recorded at Colorado's state layer (Colorado Revised Statutes section 25-4-1607, as amended by Senate Bill 25-285) rather than restated here.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado Springs
- Phone
- (719) 578-3199
- Website
- www.elpasocountyhealth.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 Colorado Springs — Home Day Care PermitCity of Colorado Springs Planning and Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
- El Paso County Board of Health, Chapter 3 — Fee Schedule and Civil Penalties (approved October 25, 2023, effective January 1, 2024)El Paso County Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-08
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