Newark
City of Newark Planning and Development Department
In short
City of Newark Planning and Development Department issues 2 permits we publish for Newark, last verified 2026-09-12. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning Board of Adjustment Variance / Special Use Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Newark Planning and Development Department | Set by application type in Code Sec. 32-3.1(a). Board of adjustment: $336.00 for a single family use, $1,331.00 for any use other than a single family, and $198.00 for a request for continuance of an appeal for variance. Special use permit: $787.00 in residential districts and $1,210.00 in university, business and industrial districts. Every one of the ten industries covered here other than a home-based operation falls in the non-single-family band for a board of adjustment application. A further $198.00 re-advertising fee is charged where a project is pulled from the agenda fewer than seven days before a scheduled board of adjustment meeting at the applicant's request, waivable for good cause at the city secretary's discretion. | one-time per application; Sec. 32-3.1(a) requires these fees be paid at the time of application and provides that they be reviewed every two years | 2026-09-12 |
| Peddlers/Vendors License | City of Newark Planning and Development Department | Priced by the length of license taken, on the City's own published table: $50.00 for one day, $250.00 for one month, or $500.00 for one year. There is no proration between those three terms and no separate general business license fee on top, because Article VII exempts peddlers from that license entirely. | as selected: 1 day, 1 month, or 1 year | 2026-09-12 |
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 Board of Adjustment Variance / Special Use Permit
Confirmed from Bill 24-29, whose Amendment 2 rewrites Sec. 32-3.1 in strike-through/underscore form, so both the prior and the adopted figures are visible in one document: board of adjustment single family use moved from $305.00 to $336.00, any other use from $1,210.00 to $1,331.00, a continuance request from $180.00 to $198.00, and the special use permit from $715.00 to $787.00 (residential) and $1,100.00 to $1,210.00 (university, business and industrial). The City's own Planning and Development Department report of November 2025 quotes the special use permit fees as '$787.00 for residential districts' and '$1,210.00 for university, business, and industrial districts,' i.e. the post-amendment column, confirming the amendment is the operative schedule and carrying the same adoption across to the board of adjustment figures set by the identical amendment to the identical section. Earlier figures: a November 2016 report had proposed $250.00/$1,000.00 for the board of adjustment and $600.00/$900.00 for a special use permit, a February 2020 memo showed the Planning Commission weighing further increases, and Bill 24-29's own strike-through column ($305.00/$1,210.00 and $715.00/$1,100.00) shows the intervening rises. The Board of Adjustment is a real, sitting body meeting on the third Thursday of each month.
Peddlers/Vendors License
Required for anyone who wants to make door-to-door sales or operate a vendor stand or vehicle in the city, including a food truck; requests are handled first-come, first-served by the Planning and Development Department. The three-tier price is taken from the City's own current Peddlers/Vendors License page, and Article VII (Supplement No. 107, May 2026) sets the relationship between this license and the general business license: §13-59(b)(1) exempts peddlers and solicitors from the Article VII business license application and fee requirements but expressly leaves every other fee requirement in the Code intact, and directs the license requirements themselves to Chapter 21 rather than Chapter 13 — a correction to this record's earlier citation, which pointed only at §13-59. So a food truck pays this license rather than the ratio-based business license, but still owes the separate, mandatory $100.00/year Fire Safety Registration listed elsewhere here, and Delaware's own state food establishment permit listed on this site's Delaware state page.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Newark
- Phone
- (302) 366-7000
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.
- Bill 24-29 — Amendment 2 amends Code Sec. 32-3.1 (Schedule of fees) in strike-through/underscore form, raising Board of Adjustment fees to $336.00 (single family use), $1,331.00 (any use other than a single family) and $198.00 (request for continuance of an appeal for variance), and Special Use Permit fees to $787.00 (residential districts) and $1,210.00 (university, business and industrial districts)City of Newark, Delaware · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Code of the City of Newark, Chapter 13, Article VII (Business Licensing), §§13-43 to 13-64 — read in full from the Municode export of Supplement No. 107 (export footer: 'Newark, Delaware, Code of Ordinances / Created: 2026-05-07 (Supp. No. 107)'), covering §13-53(c) classification, §13-55(b) the twenty class ratios, §13-56 the fee formula, §13-56.1 the Downtown Newark Partnership fee, §13-57 the occupancy/employment adjustments, §13-58 miscellaneous and alternative fees, §13-59 exemptions, and §13-64 the technology feeCity of Newark, Delaware · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Memo, February 26, 2020 — confirms a further increase to the Chapter 27/32 Schedule of Fees was under Planning Commission considerationCity of Newark, Planning and Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Peddlers/Vendors License — the City's own current page confirming the $50/day, $250/month, and $500/year feesCity of Newark, Planning and Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Planning and Development Department Report re: Residential Special Use Permit Cost, November 2025 — quotes the operative Sec. 32-3.1 Special Use Permit fees as $787.00 for residential districts and $1,210.00 for university, business and industrial districtsCity of Newark, Planning and Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Planning and Development Department Report, November 29, 2016 — proposed Chapter 27/32 Schedule of Fees, including then-proposed Board of Adjustment and Special Use Permit figuresCity of Newark, Planning and Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Public Works and Water Resources — Schedule of Fees, Chapter 27 Subdivisions (effective 1/1/2025, Per Bill 24-29) — corroborates repeated intervening fee increases in the same numbering lineage since 2016/2020City of Newark, Public Works and Water Resources Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
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