Bismarck
City of Bismarck Community Development Department, Planning Division
In short
City of Bismarck Community Development Department, Planning Division issues 1 permit we publish for Bismarck, last verified 2026-09-14. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Use Permit / Zoning Varianceonly if it applies to you | City of Bismarck Community Development Department, Planning Division | From the January 2026 Planning Fee Schedule: a special use permit is $750.00, a variance $550.00, an appeal $250.00 and a zoning verification letter $100.00. Site plan review is $1,050.00 for a major plan, $900.00 for a major plan outside city limits, $500.00 for a minor plan and $100.00 for an amendment. A zoning map amendment is $1,350.00 under three acres, $1,450.00 from three to ten acres and $1,550.00 above ten. A planned unit development addition is $150.00 and an amendment $1,100.00. Major subdivision preliminary plats run $950.00, $1,150.00 and $1,350.00 by the same acreage bands with a $1,650.00 final plat; minor plats are $1,700.00, $1,800.00 and $1,900.00. Annexation is $0.00. | one-time per application; fees are due at application or resubmittal and are not refundable | 2026-09-14 |
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
Special Use Permit / Zoning Variance
Read from the City's own January 2026 Planning Fee Schedule, which states on its face that 'All fees are due at time of application or resubmittal and are not refundable.' The City's August 2025 preliminary budget appendix lists lower plat and site plan figures than this schedule; the January 2026 figures are the ones given here because that schedule is both later and purpose-specific. The special use permit is the application most likely to reach a restaurant, retail, childcare, fitness, auto repair, veterinary or salon business where its use is conditional in its district. At $750.00 it is materially more expensive than the equivalent conditional use permit in Fargo, which is $185.00 — a real difference between the two cities rather than an extraction artefact, since both were read from their respective cities' own current schedules.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Bismarck
- Phone
- (701) 355-1840
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.
- 2026 Planning Fee Schedule, last revised January 5, 2026 — special use permits, variances, appeals, zoning map amendments, site plan review, plats and zoning verification letters, with the note that all fees are due at application or resubmittal and are not refundableCity of Bismarck Community Development Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
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