Nassau County Planning Commission

Building Permits and Zoning Approval — Issued by Towns, Cities and Villages (Nassau County)

Nassau County's own Building and Zoning Permits page tells applicants to 'call your city, town or village directly' for building permit information and links to municipal permit pages, and the County charges no fee for a building permit of its own. Building permits, zoning approvals and construction-code enforcement are a town, city or village function, including on unincorporated hamlet land within the 3 towns — for example, the Town of North Hempstead's own Department of Building, Safety, Inspection & Enforcement issues building permits in that town's unincorporated area. Nassau County's own role is narrower: subdivision-approval jurisdiction over unincorporated land in the 3 towns, and an advisory '239-F' referral review the county Planning Commission performs when a town, city or village proposes certain zoning changes near a county facility or boundary — a review function, not a permitting one, and it creates no direct business obligation. A business in any of the ten target industries gets its building permit or certificate of occupancy from its own town, city or village building department.