Ann Arbor Building Permit Guide
Ann Arbor filings are online only, and in the city’s historic districts the design approval has to be in hand before the building permit can issue.
Canton Township Building Permit Guide
Canton permits at city scale from a charter township office — and is explicit that it will not refund a permit you cancel because your homeowners’ association said no.
Clinton Township Building Permit Guide
Michigan’s largest township permits like a city — and applies a sequencing rule on new homes that stops shed, deck, pool and fence permits before the deed catches up.
Dearborn Building Permit Guide
Dearborn requires a certificate of occupancy before a home changes hands, which puts the building department on the critical path of every residential closing in the city.
Dearborn Heights Building Permit Guide
A fence in Dearborn Heights needs your neighbour’s signature, notarised — and the counter is closed on Fridays.
Detroit Building Permit Guide
Detroit runs the state construction code through its own department, with local amendments and a second, city-issued contractor licence that the state licence does not replace.
Farmington Hills Building Permit Guide
Farmington Hills protects its tree canopy at a six-inch threshold, requires homeowner affidavits to be notarised, and registers new contractors in person only.
Flint Building Permit Guide
A Flint postal address does not settle the question. The City of Flint and the Charter Township of Flint are separate authorities with separate departments, separate phone numbers and separate rules.
Genesee County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Genesee County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Grand Rapids Building Permit Guide
Michigan’s second-largest city permits through a single Development Center, with a city contractor registration layered on the state licence and a soil erosion trigger that catches projects nowhere near the river.
Ingham County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Ingham County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Kalamazoo Building Permit Guide
In Kalamazoo a historic district decision is binding on the building official by ordinance — no permit may be issued and no work done contrary to it.
Kalamazoo County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Kalamazoo County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Kent County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Kent County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Kentwood Building Permit Guide
Kentwood publishes its enforced codes part by part — and the table shows plainly that commercial and residential work in the same city sit on editions six years apart.
Lansing Building Permit Guide
The state capital hosts the Bureau of Construction Codes, but permits inside the city are issued by Lansing’s own Building Safety Office — with its own submittal and refund rules.
Livingston County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Livingston County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Livonia Building Permit Guide
Livonia cancels a permit when no inspection has been requested or conducted for six months — which quietly ends more projects here than any code provision does.
Macomb County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Macomb County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Macomb Township Building Permit Guide
Macomb Township requires a certificate of zoning compliance before any structure or premises is occupied, reoccupied, created, erected, changed or converted — six separate triggers, not one.
Novi Building Permit Guide
Novi asks for a wetland and woodland affidavit on any residential work — new homes, additions, decks, pools — not just on projects near visible water.
Oakland County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Oakland County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Ottawa County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Ottawa County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Rochester Hills Building Permit Guide
Rochester Hills books inspections exclusively online, through the same login used to apply for the permit — there is no phone route, and the wrong account cannot see the permit.
Royal Oak Building Permit Guide
Major work in Royal Oak needs a second permit from Engineering covering the public right of way — and the City of Royal Oak is not the same jurisdiction as Royal Oak Township.
Shelby Township Building Permit Guide
Shelby will not schedule an inspection on gas work until its own gas pipe and meter sizing worksheet is completed and on file — and since September, permits run one hundred and eighty days.
Southfield Building Permit Guide
No site work happens in Southfield until four separate departments have given initial approval — and an incomplete submission to any one of them stops the whole review.
Sterling Heights Building Permit Guide
Sterling Heights will not review or process a permit until the non-refundable application fee is paid — and a homeowner who pulls a permit for a contractor takes on that contractor’s work.
Taylor Building Permit Guide
Taylor will not start a plan review without three paper sets, a digital copy on a flash drive and the fee — and says so with the words no exceptions.
Troy Building Permit Guide
Troy is paperless, closes its inspection window at two in the afternoon, and cancels inspections outright where the permit board has not been printed and posted.
Warren Building Permit Guide
Michigan’s third-largest city sets one of the lowest work-value thresholds in the state for checking with the building department before you start.
Washtenaw County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Washtenaw County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Waterford Township Building Permit Guide
Waterford runs an online portal for most things — but building permits themselves must be submitted in person or by mail, not by email and not online.
Wayne County Building Permit Guide
Everything contractors, builders, and developers need to get a building permit in Wayne County, MI — requirements, the Michigan Building Code / Michigan Residential Code permit process, fees, trade permits, and inspections.
Westland Building Permit Guide
Westland runs a point-of-sale housing inspection: a certificate of approval is handed to the purchaser at transfer, or the buyer pays for a letter that allows the closing to happen.