City and County of Denver · CO
Building permits in Denver, CO target up to 180 days for major residential projects and about 20 business days for standard commercial through the CPD Accela portal. Instead of checking the portal every few days, SignedOff automatically monitors your Denver permit and sends you email alerts when the status changes, inspections are scheduled, or your permit is about to expire. Start free — no credit card required.
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Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD)
201 West Colfax Avenue, Department 205The permit categories SignedOff tracks automatically across Denver Development Services.
Required for new construction, additions, and major remodels of single-family and duplex homes in the City and County of Denver. Reviewed by Community Planning and Development (CPD) for building, zoning, and energy code compliance.
Timeline: Up to ~180-day target (major projects)
Required for new commercial construction, tenant improvements, and major commercial alterations in Denver. Reviewed by CPD across multiple trades under one consolidated permit.
Timeline: ~20 business days (standard)
Required for residential rooftop solar PV systems under 10 kW in the City and County of Denver. Reviewed under a separate solar permit category.
Timeline: ~1-2 weeks for systems <10 kW
Required for service upgrades, panel changes, new circuits, EV charger installations, and similar scopes in Denver.
Timeline: Same-day to 1 week for standalone scopes
Required for HVAC installation, replacement, ductwork, and heat pump conversions. Denver has growing heat pump activity tied to electrification incentives.
Timeline: Same-day to 1 week
Required for water heater replacements, re-pipes, sewer work, and fixture additions in Denver.
Timeline: Same-day to 1 week
Separate zoning review can be required for use changes, setbacks, and accessory structures, and is typically pulled alongside the building permit through the same Accela workflow.
Timeline: Days to a few weeks for standard residential zoning review
Example Denver permit number:
2024-BLDG-000123
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Denver permits go through plan review with the Community Planning and Development department, with timelines varying by project type.
Denver is a consolidated city and county, so a single permit covers what would otherwise be two separate filings in most other markets — one Accela account at CPD handles building, zoning, and most trade permits across the entire Denver jurisdiction.
Effective December 2025, Denver added a 2.5% credit card surcharge on permit payments through the CPD portal, which changed how many contractors and homeowners decide to pay for fees on larger permits.
The broader US West region saw a roughly 10.7% year-over-year increase in permit volume heading into 2025, and Denver's CPD portal has absorbed much of that growth — contractors should expect peak-season queues on plan review even for routine residential scopes.
The Denver Development Services is the authoritative source for single-permit lookups and the official status of record in City and County of Denver, reachable at https://aca-prod.accela.com/DENVER. Third-party permit monitoring services such as SignedOff poll Denver Development Services on a recurring schedule to detect status changes, scheduled inspections, and expiration deadlines for Denver permits. This approach is most useful for contractors, architects, and project managers tracking multiple active Denver permits across jobs, where logging into the portal manually for each permit becomes impractical.
Permits in Denver flow through Accela Citizen Access, the same portal system used by several other jurisdictions SignedOff covers. See the Accela Citizen Access adapter page for technical details on how the system works and every jurisdiction it currently supports.
For a single permit lookup or anything requiring official confirmation — issuance, occupancy sign-off, final inspection — the Denver Development Services is the source of record. Go directly to the City and County of Denver portal for those.
For ongoing monitoring across multiple Denver permits, a third-party service such as SignedOff reduces manual portal logins and surfaces status changes by email. The typical use case is a contractor, architect, or project manager with several active Denver jobs at different stages — plan check, inspection, close-out — where logging into the portal daily for each one isn't practical.
Both tools draw from the same underlying permit record — the Denver Development Services is always the system of record; SignedOff is a monitoring layer on top of it.
Denver major residential permits target up to 180 days under the May-2025 Denver Permitting Office reform, while standard commercial permits run about 20 business days via CPD. Minor residential and standalone trade permits are typically much shorter. SignedOff monitors your Denver permit through the CPD Accela portal and notifies you the moment status changes.
Denver permit status is tracked through the Community Planning and Development Accela Citizen Access portal at aca-prod.accela.com/DENVER, which covers building, zoning, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing permits for the consolidated city and county.
Denver Development Services permits follow a YEAR-TYPE-SEQUENCE format such as 2024-BLDG-000123 or 2025-ELEC-001234, where the type code identifies which trade or review track the permit falls under.
Yes, effective December 2025 Denver added a 2.5% credit card surcharge to permit payments processed through the CPD portal, which is commonly factored into how contractors and homeowners decide to pay on larger permit fees.
No — Denver is a consolidated city and county, so a single permit application through CPD's Accela portal covers what would normally be separate city and county filings, and one login manages the full workflow.
Yes. SignedOff connects to the CPD Accela portal and monitors your Denver permit 24/7. You’ll get email alerts when your permit status changes, inspections are scheduled, or deadlines are approaching. Start free at signedoff.io.
Instead of logging into the CPD Accela portal every few days, you can use SignedOff to automatically monitor your permit. Enter your permit number and SignedOff checks the portal for you, sending email notifications when anything changes.
Yes. SignedOff lets you track multiple permits across Denver and other jurisdictions from a single dashboard. Contractors managing several active projects use it to stay on top of all their permits without manually checking each portal.
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