Lewisville
City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division
In short
City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division issues 5 permits we publish for Lewisville, last verified 2026-08-27. 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 | City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division | Valuation from the most recently adopted International Code Council Building Valuation Data Table by use group and construction type, then the step rate table: $125 to $10,000 of valuation; $125 plus $14.00 per additional $1,000 to $25,000; $391.25 plus $10.10 per $1,000 to $50,000; $643.75 plus $7.00 per $1,000 to $100,000; $993.75 plus $5.60 per $1,000 to $500,000; $3,233.75 plus $4.75 per $1,000 to $1,000,000; $5,608.75 plus $3.15 per $1,000 above. Shell-only buildings deduct 20 per cent of construction cost first | per permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Sign Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division | $25–$100 per permit, by sign type | per permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Certificate of Occupancy | City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division | $100 per certificate | per certificate | 2026-08-27 |
| Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division | $0.04 per square foot for each of electrical, plumbing and mechanical, minimum $100 commercial; a miscellaneous permit in any of the three trades is $100 | per permit | 2026-08-27 |
| Contractor Registration | City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division | $0–$100 per year, by trade | 1 year | 2026-08-27 |
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
The same valuation table covers new construction, an alteration or finish-out and a shell building, and the permit INCLUDES mechanical, electrical and plumbing — which is what makes Lewisville cheap relative to cities that charge each trade again. Work the figure in two steps: take the square-foot cost for your use group and construction type from the ICC valuation table (a restaurant in type VB is $176.40 a foot, a mercantile use $117.89, a moderate-hazard warehouse $76.53), multiply by area to get the valuation, then read the step rate table. A 2,000 square foot restaurant fit-out at type VB values around $352,800 and costs roughly $2,410. Shell-only buildings deduct 20 per cent of construction cost before the table is applied, per the Building Inspection Division schedule. The step rate itself is confirmed by the city's Fee Schedule effective 6 July 2026, which is the adopted instrument — section 2-201 of the code stopped carrying fees in 2020, when Ordinance 0258-20-ORD repealed the in-code schedule and moved it to a document maintained by the city manager.
Sign Permit
A flat $100 for a sign, $50 for a banner sign and $25 for a grand opening — with a separate $25 special event administrative fee where the signage is part of an event. A sign contractor must hold the city's $80 annual registration to pull the permit. The codified section 2-201 prices signs quite differently, at 45 cents a square foot per FACE with a $30 minimum and a plan-checking surcharge of half the permit fee on illuminated signs over 100 square feet; the departmental schedule supersedes that for the permit itself, but the sign variance fee of $350 in section 2-201 has no counterpart on the building schedule and still applies.
Certificate of Occupancy
$100, and every new commercial tenant needs one before opening — a change of occupant triggers it even where no building work is done. The figure was in doubt here because the Building Inspection Division schedule omits the certificate entirely; the city's own Fee Schedule, effective 6 July 2026, carries it plainly at $100 under its own heading. Budget for what surrounds it rather than the certificate itself: reinspections escalate at $50, then $75, then $100, and both out-of-hours inspections and any inspection for which no fee is specified are charged at the top-of-range overtime rate for a building inspector plus 18 per cent, which the schedule never converts into dollars. Ask what that hourly rate is before booking anything outside business hours.
Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical Permit
Four cents a square foot for each trade with a $100 commercial floor — but only where the trade work stands alone, because a building permit already includes mechanical, electrical and plumbing. The city's Fee Schedule effective 6 July 2026 sets this rate, raising it from the three and a half cents in the Building Inspection Division schedule of January 2024. A miscellaneous permit in any of the three trades is a flat $100 commercial, as are an electrical meter, an electrical panel, a water heater, a plumbing line repair and a plumbing gas test. Other commercial flat items on the same schedule: a roof $200 and a swimming pool $300 including MEP, then at $100 each irrigation, a fence, a screening wall, flatwork, solar panels, a carport or patio cover, a deck over 30 inches, a retaining wall over 48 inches, window replacement, a construction or sales trailer, an accessory building and a miscellaneous building permit. Demolition — interior, whole building or pool — is $50 each, as are a driveway, foundation repair and siding. Reinspections run $50, then $75, then $100.
Contractor Registration
$80 a year for a general contractor, a sign contractor, an irrigation contractor and a customer service inspector; a backflow tester is $100. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors pay NO FEE — Texas licenses those trades at state level and limits what a city may charge them, and the schedule says so in as many words. That makes Lewisville unusual in naming the exempt trades explicitly rather than leaving an owner to work it out. The city's Fee Schedule effective 6 July 2026 states the $80 and the exemption in a single line, so both halves come from the same current document.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Lewisville
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- City of Lewisville Building Permit and Fee Schedule, effective 1 January 2024 (commercial and residential permit fees, IBC valuation tables 1 and 2, contractor registration and reinspection fees)City of Lewisville Building Inspection Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- City of Lewisville Code of Ordinances chapter 2, article VIII, section 2-201, Fee scheduleCity of Lewisville · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
- City of Lewisville Fee Schedule, effective 6 July 2026City of Lewisville · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
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