Commercial and multifamily projects also need Fire Marshal review

Out past the city limits, a development permit is often only half the job. Put up a commercial building, a building the public walks into, or any multifamily housing of four units or more, and the fire code calls for a separate Fire Marshal construction permit alongside it.

The two clocks run on one chain. The Fire Marshal won't open a construction application until you already hold a current development permit and a 911 address for the site, so you have to line them up in that sequence. Once it's in, plan review can stretch to 10 working days, and you'll need to bring the drawings, a design professional, and your contractor details to the table.

A little shop building, an event venue, a church, a school, an apartment project out in the county: most need both the land-development review and the fire-code review, each on its own timeline. Pull Development Services and the Fire Marshal into the conversation early and the two reviews run side by side, instead of one sitting idle while it waits on the other and the delays stack up.