Midland
City of Midland Development Services, Permitting and Inspections
In short
City of Midland Development Services, Permitting and Inspections issues 3 permits we publish for Midland, last verified 2026-08-24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor Permit | City of Midland Development Services, Permitting and Inspections | $100 per calendar year | one calendar year | 2026-08-24 |
| Commercial Building Permit | City of Midland Development Services, Permitting and Inspections | $100 up to $20,000 of valuation, then $100 plus $3.50 for each additional $1,000 or part thereof | not stated in the published fee schedule | 2026-08-24 |
| Commercial Plan Review | City of Midland Development Services, Permitting and Inspections | 25% of the building permit fee | one-time, per application | 2026-08-24 |
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
Vendor Permit
$100, valid for one calendar year — note the calendar year, not twelve months from issue, so a permit bought in October covers three months. The application covers food, fruit, seasonal and holiday item vendors and an open other category, and it requires every vending or selling location to be listed with a permission or authorisation letter from the property owner for each. Employees are named on the application too. Since 1 July 2026 a mobile food unit also needs a Texas DSHS license, which this city permit does not replace.
Commercial Building Permit
$100 covers everything up to $20,000 of valuation, then $3.50 for each further $1,000 or part of one — so a $250,000 fit-out computes to $905 and a $1m project to $3,530. That is among the cheapest commercial building permits in this dataset: the same $1m project costs roughly $2,410 in San Antonio, $3,365 in Frisco and far more in Odessa, which charges a $1,000 base before its per-square-foot rate. Payment is split rather than taken up front — 25% with the application at submission, and the remaining 75% once the plan reviewer notifies you of approval, before the permit issues. A bonded contractor must be listed on the permit for it to issue.
Commercial Plan Review
25% of the building permit fee, which the fee schedule now lets you compute: on a $250,000 fit-out the permit is $905 and the review $226. Do not confuse this with the payment split — the city also takes 25% of the APPLICATION fee at submission and 75% after approval, which is a schedule of instalments rather than a separate charge. The 25% review rate matches Waco and Abilene, and sits below Arlington's 35%, Mesquite's 28% and Grand Prairie's 45%.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Midland
- 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.
- Building Permits — fee schedule effective 1 February 2026 and payment splitCity of Midland Development Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
- Commercial New Building and Additions — building permit submittal checklistCity of Midland · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
- Vendor Permit ApplicationCity of Midland · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24
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