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Denton County Development Services

In short

Denton County Development Services issues 2 permits we publish for Denton County, last verified 2026-09-29. 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
Non-Residential Development Permit (unincorporated area)Denton County Development Services$220 per permit outside the floodplain; $450 per permit inside the floodplain.one-time per development2026-09-29
Culvert Permit and Driveway Inspection (county-maintained road)only if it applies to youDenton County Development ServicesCulvert Permit $300; Driveway Inspection $75; Culvert Reinspection $75.one-time per driveway connection2026-09-29

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

Non-Residential Development Permit (unincorporated area)

Any development in unincorporated Denton County requires a Development Permit; development includes buildings, structures, grading, paving and the storage of equipment or materials, and the permit is tied to the county's National Flood Insurance Program floodplain management. The Commissioners Court adopted a stand-alone Development Services fee schedule on 2 June 2026 (Court Order 26-0390, 5-0-0), which rescinded Court Order 02-0494; the 'Proposed Fees' header still printed on the PDF is a leftover label and the figures are the adopted ones. Applications go through the Civic Access portal, no fee is due at submittal, and the fee is emailed after the completeness review. Inside a city the city's own permit office applies instead.

Culvert Permit and Driveway Inspection (county-maintained road)

A new drive onto a county-maintained road in unincorporated Denton County needs a Culvert Permit ($300), and the driveway is inspected for $75, with a further $75 for a culvert reinspection. The rule follows the Development Permit and applies to a business of any industry that builds a new access to its site from a county road. The amounts come from the stand-alone schedule the Commissioners Court adopted on 2 June 2026 (Court Order 26-0390); the earlier culvert figure of $15 was superseded. A road maintained by a city or by the state is outside this permit.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Denton County
Phone
940-349-2990

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. Commissioners Court minutes, 2 June 2026 (Court Order 26-0390, Development Services fee schedule)Denton County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  2. Denton County Development ServicesDenton County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  3. Denton County Development Services Fee ScheduleDenton County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  4. Development Services fee schedule, agenda attachment, 2 June 2026Denton County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29

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