Home Permit Fee & Inspection Rule Watch

Track residential building permits and inspections in the United States. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: permit fee increases and new fee schedules in the 100 largest cities and counties with effective dates; changes to what requires or no longer requires a permit for decks, sheds, fences, water heaters, electrical panels, solar, batteries, EV chargers, kitchens, baths and additions; online permit portal launches, outages and published processing times; inspection wait time and backlog data; residential, energy and electrical code adoption dates by state and city with the cost effect; permit amnesty and unpermitted work legalization programs with windows; owner-builder and homeowner permit rule changes; permit expiration and renewal rule changes; stop-work order, fine and enforcement changes; and contractor permit-pulling requirement changes. Prefer city and county building departments, state building code councils, ICC adoption trackers and established local reporting; ignore contractor marketing. Put the city, county or code first in the title with the fee, rule or deadline. Use high severity for a fee increase of 25 percent or more, a code adoption within 90 days in a metro over one million people, an amnesty program with a closing window, or a new permit requirement for a common project. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.