Portland
City of Portland, Planning & Urban Development Department
In short
City of Portland, Planning & Urban Development Department issues 2 permits we publish for Portland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Board Site Plan Review / Conditional Use Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Portland, Planning & Urban Development Department | Minor Site Plan (Residential) $300.00; Minor Site Plan (Low-Impact Site Development) $600.00; Minor Site Plan (Other) $800.00; Major Site Plan banded by size from $2,750.00 (under 50,000 sq ft) to $7,000.00 (over 300,000 sq ft); Conditional Use (Planning Board) $1,000.00, or $100.00 for an Inclusionary Zoning Conditional Use; a Zoning Map or Land Use Code Text Amendment is $7,500.00 each ($10,000.00 combined, or for a conditional/contract rezoning); Development Review Services are billed separately at $54.00/hour (planning) or $75.00/hour (legal) where applicable. | one-time, per application | 2026-09-12 |
| Zoning Board of Appeals Variance / Appeal (fee not published)only if it applies to you | City of Portland, Planning & Urban Development Department | No fee | not stated in the published fee schedule | 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
Planning Board Site Plan Review / Conditional Use Permit
Triggered by new construction, a significant addition, or a use requiring Planning Board approval — not every business opening; a small tenant fit-out inside an existing building typically proceeds under the Building Permit process recorded above instead. Administered by the Planning & Urban Development Department, a genuinely separate department from Permitting and Inspections with its own fee schedule and phone line.
Zoning Board of Appeals Variance / Appeal (fee not published)
The fee for this application is not published. The Zoning Board of Appeals is its own City board with variance, administrative-appeal, and conditional-use-appeal authority under the Land Use Code, but neither the Planning & Urban Development Department's own current fee schedule nor Chapter 15's own complete § 15-12 licensing fee table prices a Zoning Board of Appeals application; contact the Permitting and Inspections Department for the current fee. Triggered when a proposed use or structure fails to conform to the Land Use Code's dimensional or use requirements and the applicant seeks relief rather than a Planning Board conditional-use approval.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Portland
- Phone
- (207) 874-8719
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.
- Planning & Urban Development Fee Schedule — Site Plan, Subdivision, Conditional Use, Zoning Map/Text Amendment, and Historic Preservation application feesCity of Portland, Maine, Planning & Urban Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
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