Town of Blue River - Building Department

Town of Blue River, Colorado

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0110 Whispering Pines Circle, Blue River, CO 80424

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The Town's Building Department page states permits are grouped into three types. "Type C Permits Include: Staining/Siding Roofs Windows Interior Remodel Forest Management (Tree Cutting) Hot Tubs Plumbing, Electrical, Mechanical Permits. Type C Permits may be approved by Town Staff," which places roof work in the permit-required category (roofing is not listed among any permit-exempt items on the page). roofing_permit_required is set true on that basis. The Building Official is reached via the Charles Abbott Associates address "[email protected]." Type A Permits (new construction, additions, garages, variances, plat amendments, subdivisions) require Planning & Zoning Commission approval, which "meets once a month on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m." Type B Permits (sheds/small structures, excavation, landscaping, berms, solar, fences, chicken enclosures, decks) "do not require Planning & Zoning Commission Approval and may be approved by the Building Official." No explicit Town contractor-license or registration requirement was found; the Town's separate Licensing page (townofblueriver.colorado.gov/licensing) covers a general $50/year Town of Blue River Business License for "[a]nyone conducting business within the Town" and a Short-Term Rental license, neither of which is stated as a contractor-specific registration, so contractor_registration_required is not asserted.

Ordinance No. 2026-01 (signed 2026-03-07, effective March 31, 2026; read from the Town's own signed ordinance PDF) adopts by reference the 2024 editions of the International Building Code, International Residential Code, International Mechanical Code, International Property Maintenance Code, International Existing Building Code, International Energy Conservation Code, International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, and International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, plus the 2023 National Electrical Code, the Colorado Fuel Gas Code, the Colorado Plumbing Code, the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, and the Colorado Model Electric Ready and Solar Ready Code, together with the regulations of the Summit County Public Health Department and the Upper Blue Sanitation District. The ordinance repeals and reenacts Municipal Code Chapter 18 Article II (which previously codified the 2018 IBC via Ordinance No. 2023-05).