Permit Status Glossary
What does your building permit status actually mean?
City portals speak in codes — PC Corrections, RTI, Finaled. Look up any LADBS, Accela, Tyler EnerGov, or EPIC-LA status below to see what it means in plain English and exactly what to do next.
Application & Plan Check
Extra plan check or permit fees are required before your LADBS permit can proceed.
On Tyler EnerGov Self Service portals (the energov:* cities such as Simi Valley, Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Carlsbad, and Glendale), the public status string ('CaseStatus') is shown raw.
Your permit fees have been calculated and invoiced, but the payment has not been received yet.
Your invoiced fees have been received and the permit can continue processing.
Your plans have been assigned to a plan checker and are actively being reviewed for code compliance.
Your application has been accepted and is in the city's first screening pass, where staff confirm the submittal is complete and route it to the right reviewers before substantive plan check begins.
Issuance of your LADBS permit failed for some reason.
Review of your permit has been paused.
All the permit information is complete and the application is ready to be issued.
No plan check (engineering review) is needed for this permit.
The plan checker reviewed your drawings and found code-compliance issues you must fix before the permit can move forward.
Your LADBS plan check ran out of time.
An extension has been granted on a deadline.
Active plan check is in progress and your project is assigned to one or more plan check engineers.
These statuses track a pre-plan-check site visit at LADBS.
Your plans are fully approved and the permit is ready to be issued — the only thing standing between you and an active permit is paying the final fees.
You resubmitted corrected plans and the city is re-reviewing them.
Your application has been received and is sitting in the intake queue waiting to be picked up.
LADBS is verifying that the plan corrections you submitted were actually made.
On the EPIC-LA portal (LA County EPIC-LA / Accela), 'Waiting for Applicant' is the correction state: the city has done its part and is waiting on you to respond — typically to submit corrections, provide a missing document, or pay a fee.
Issued & In Construction
A Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) clears a building to be legally occupied.
The permit or a tracked activity is complete.
The work, or the record, is exempt from a permit requirement.
This tracks grading (earthwork) certification at LADBS, which is separate from the building permit and has its own sign-off process.
Your permit is issued and the project is moving through its construction inspections.
The permit has officially been issued and construction can begin.
All work and all required inspections are complete and approved — the project is done.
Your plans have passed plan check.
A Temporary Certificate of Occupancy has been issued at LADBS, allowing you to occupy the building before every last item is finished.
Closed & Problem Statuses
A Notice of Violation has been issued on a code-enforcement case — this appears on Enforcement Cases (record type ENF), not on standard building permits.
The permit has been cancelled or voided and is no longer valid.
The permit record has been closed.
Your permit application was denied.
The permit has expired due to inactivity or hitting a time limit.
The city has revoked, or is in the process of revoking, your permit.
A fee refund tied to this LADBS record is being processed or has been completed.
The applicant withdrew the permit application.
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