Albuquerque
City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Building Safety Division
In short
City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Building Safety Division issues 1 permit we publish for Albuquerque, last verified 2026-09-11. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy | City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Building Safety Division | The Building Safety Division's own published table prices a commercial/apartment/public permit starting at $23.50 for the first $800 of construction valuation, rising through a detailed banded table to $1,495.00 at $320,000-$321,000 of valuation. Beyond the published table, the Division computes the fee as $993.75 for the first $100,000 of valuation plus $5.60 for each additional $1,000, then applies a 0.67 commercial multiplier (0.50 for one- and two-family residential work). Plan review is billed separately, at 65% of the calculated permit fee — a figure the Division's current online fee-information page confirms is still the operative method, layered on top of the 2021 edition of the ICC Building Valuation Data for minimum per-square-foot construction values. A zoning review fee of $25 (buildings under 4,000 sq ft) or $45 (4,000 sq ft or more) and a flat $50 hydrology fee apply on top of the permit and plan-review fees. | one-time, per project | 2026-09-11 |
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
Commercial Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy
The published valuation table itself dates to April 2010, but the Building Safety Division's current fee-information page still describes plan review as 65% of the permit fee — the same figure this decade-old table states — so it is treated here as the operative fee methodology rather than a stale document, with its age disclosed. No separately published Certificate of Occupancy fee, distinct from this permitting and final-inspection process, could be found; the certificate is issued as the closing step of this same process rather than as a separately priced product.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Albuquerque
- Phone
- (505) 924-3320
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.
- Plan Review and Building Permit Fees (Revised April 2010) — the valuation-banded commercial/apartment/public permit and plan-review fee table, zoning fee ($25/$45 by building size), $50 hydrology fee, and the formula for valuations above the published tableCity of Albuquerque, Planning Department, Building Safety Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
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