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Montgomery County Permitting Department

In short

Montgomery County Permitting Department issues 2 permits we publish for Montgomery County, 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

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Commercial Structure PermitMontgomery County Permitting Department$250–$1,600 per permit, by floor area and floodplain statusper permit; recertification costs half the original fee2026-08-27
Floodplain Development Permitonly if it applies to youMontgomery County Permitting Department$0–$1,600 per permit, by scopeper permit2026-08-27

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 Structure Permit

Banded on floor area: a new structure under 5,000 square feet is $500, then $750 to 9,999, $1,000 to 14,999 and $1,500 to 20,000. Inside the floodplain the same bands cost $600, $850, $1,100 and $1,600 — about 20 per cent more, and the schedule stops at 20,000 square feet, so anything larger needs a conversation rather than a lookup. Non-structure work such as demolition, a driveway or disturbed area is $250, or $300 in the floodplain. Two provisions to watch: non-compliance is $200 per violation, and letting a permit lapse costs half the original fee to recertify. This applies in the UNINCORPORATED county; inside a city, the city permits.

Floodplain Development Permit

A floodplain determination itself is free, which makes it the first thing to ask for on any site near a watercourse — it settles whether the rest applies. If it does, the premium runs through everything: $300 rather than $250 for non-structure work, and $600 to $1,600 rather than $500 to $1,500 for a new commercial structure. Non-compliance is $200 per incident. Montgomery County took severe flooding in 2016 and 2017, which is the context for a schedule that prices floodplain work separately at every line.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Montgomery County
Phone
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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. Montgomery County Permitting Fee Schedule, effective 2 June 2025 — fire code, commercial structure, residential structure, health and septicMontgomery County · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27

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