The Colony
City of The Colony Building Inspections
In short
City of The Colony Building Inspections issues 6 permits we publish for The Colony, last verified 2026-08-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor Registration | City of The Colony Building Inspections | $75 per registration, per year | 1 year | 2026-08-25 |
| Commercial Building Permit | City of The Colony Building Inspections | ICC Square Foot Construction Costs table (published each August) times a permit fee multiplier of 0.0090 for new construction, or 0.0050 for alteration, remodel and total finish out | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Certificate of Occupancy | City of The Colony Building Inspections | $75 per certificate | not stated in the published schedule | 2026-08-25 |
| Sign Permitonly if it applies to you | City of The Colony Building Inspections | $30–$300 per sign, by face area | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
| Special Event Permitonly if it applies to you | City of The Colony Building Inspections | $50–$250 per event, by expected attendance | per event | 2026-08-25 |
| Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing Permitonly if it applies to you | City of The Colony Building Inspections | $10 for every $1,000 of value, minimum $100, charged separately for electrical, mechanical and plumbing | per permit | 2026-08-25 |
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
Contractor Registration
$75 per registration annually, and the schedule spells out how wide general contractor reaches: commercial, residential, moving, pool, fence, sign, demolition, foundation and remodelling contractors are all named, with the list expressly not exhaustive. If a trade is putting anything on your site it probably needs to be registered, and that includes the sign company.
Commercial Building Permit
The Colony does not set its own square-foot rates. It takes the ICC Square Foot Construction Costs table published each August and applies a multiplier — 0.0090 for new construction and 0.0050 for an alteration, remodel or total finish out. A fit-out therefore costs about 55 per cent of what the same floor area would cost new. Because the base table is reissued annually, the fee moves every August without the city amending anything, so a quote given in July may be wrong in September. Plan review is a further 25 per cent of the building permit fee for commercial, plus a $50 non-refundable application fee.
Certificate of Occupancy
$75, and a temporary certificate is $75 as well — one of only a handful of schedules here that does not charge a premium for the temporary version. Operating a business without a certificate does not carry a flat penalty: the schedule says the fee is doubled, so the cost of being caught scales with whatever you should have paid. Building reinspection is $75 and a fire or annual fire company reinspection another $75.
Sign Permit
Six bands on face area: $30 up to 24.99 square feet, $45 to 49.99, $60 to 99.99, $125 to 299.99, $200 to 399.99 and $300 at 400 square feet and above. A banner is $30 up to 29.99 square feet and $45 to 48 square feet; an inflatable sign is $45. A billboard costs $75 to register and $150 to renew annually. Sign plan review adds $20, and a signage license agreement review — needed where a sign sits on city land or in the right of way — is $100.
Special Event Permit
Banded on how many people you expect: $50 up to 249, $150 from 250 to 1,999 and $250 at 2,000 or more. An organisation event sign is $15 each and a tent, bounce house or climbing wall $50 each — charged per item, so a family event with a bounce house and a climbing wall pays $100 on top of the event permit itself.
Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing Permit
One per cent of value with a $100 floor, and the same rate applies to all three trades — so a fit-out touching electrical, mechanical and plumbing pays three separate permits at $100 minimum each. A backflow repair or replacement permit is $75, a new lawn sprinkler system with backflow test $125, and the annual backflow inspection report $53 per device. Re-roofing a commercial building is charged on the same $10 per $1,000 basis with a $100 minimum.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- The Colony
- Phone
- (972) 624-3150
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 The Colony Master Fee Schedule, 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026City of The Colony · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-25
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