Commercial Compliance Hub
Check requirements

Fulton County

Fulton County Department of Public Works, Planning & Community Services

In short

Fulton County Department of Public Works, Planning & Community Services issues 2 permits we publish for Fulton County, last verified 2026-10-03. 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
Building Permit / Zoning Complianceonly if it applies to youFulton County Department of Public Works, Planning & Community ServicesFulton County Public Works, Planning & Community Services issues building permits and administers zoning compliance only in the Fulton Industrial Business District (FIBD) and any remaining unincorporated area, under the technical codes adopted at Code §§14-38 through 14-41 (Georgia's state minimum standard codes, including the International Building, Electrical, Fuel Gas, Mechanical, Plumbing, Residential, Energy Conservation, Fire and Property Maintenance Codes, administered on the 2000 IBC administrative section as locally amended). The county's live Permits and Plan Review page does not currently link a dollar-figure fee schedule; the only schedule on file is a January 2016 'South Fulton Special Services District' document that predates the 2017 incorporation of the City of South Fulton and is no longer linked from that page, so its figures are not published here.per project2026-10-03
Zoning Certification Letteronly if it applies to youFulton County Department of Public Works, Planning & Community Services$40 flat, per requestper request (one-time)2026-10-03

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

Building Permit / Zoning Compliance

This building-permit and zoning-compliance requirement reaches only the Fulton Industrial Business District and any remaining unincorporated area of Fulton County — every incorporated city, including Atlanta, issues its own building permits and administers its own zoning within its limits instead, per the county's own Public Works page describing the July 3, 2017 transfer of those functions to the City of South Fulton. The technical codes adopted are Georgia's state minimum standard codes under Code §§14-38–14-41. The only fee schedule on file is dated January 2016 and predates that 2017 transfer; it is no longer linked from the county's current live Permits and Plan Review page, so its dollar figures are not published here — only the requirement and the codes it runs on.

Zoning Certification Letter

A business or property owner can request a standalone Zoning Certification Letter from Fulton County Public Works confirming a parcel's current zoning classification, separate from the Zoning Confirmation Form bundled into the Business Occupation Tax Certificate application above — the two are distinct, non-duplicate fee items from two different county pages and processes. The county's own 'Certify Zoning' page states a processing fee of $40.00 is assessed for each request. Like the other Public Works records above, this service covers the Fulton Industrial Business District and any remaining unincorporated area; a parcel inside an incorporated city is certified by that city instead.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Fulton County
Phone
Not verified — use the website

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.

  1. Fulton County Code of Laws, Chapter 14 — Buildings and Building RegulationsFulton County / Municode · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  2. Fulton County Public Works — Certify Zoning service pageFulton County Department of Public Works · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
  3. Fulton County Public Works, Planning, Zoning and Permitting pageFulton County Department of Public Works · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02

Other offices serving Fulton County

The full permit list for this jurisdiction

Industry permit lists that include this agency

Georgia jurisdictions

Commercial Compliance Hub publishes information, not legal advice. Requirements change — confirm anything you rely on with the issuing agency before you file.