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City of Cripple Creek Building Department

Adopted code

The building permit authority for the City of Cripple Creek, Teller County. The City's own Building Department, under the Planning & Community Development Department, processes building permit applications and annual contractor license applications and handles nuisance/code violations; SAFEbuilt is engaged as the City's full-service company for plan review, permits, and inspections, working alongside a City-employed Combination Building Inspector.

Jurisdiction

City of Cripple Creek, Colorado

Jurisdiction type

city

Address

337 E. Bennett Ave. / PO Box 430, Cripple Creek, CO 80813

Contact

url: https://www.cityofcripplecreek.com/building-department
phone: 719-689-3588

Contractor registration required

true

Registration details

license: The Building Department "processes building permit applications and annual contractor license applications," and the City's Permits, Inspections & Contractors Licensing page directs the public to "contact the Building Department (719-689-3588) to verify that your contractor is licensed to work in the City of Cripple Creek." New contractor license applications are reviewed by a seven-member Board of Review (City Council-appointed volunteers from the local construction industry), which also considers building-code updates and mediates contractor/citizen/Building-Department disputes. A prior contractor-license application PDF referenced in older search indexes (cityofcripplecreek.com/wp-content/uploads/.../APPLICATION-FOR- CONTRACTOR-LICENSE.pdf) 404s on the current Drupal/CivicPlus site and should be treated as stale.

Permit process note

The City is in the process of moving permitting onto a new "CommunityCore" online platform, requiring applicants (contractors and community members) to register for an account; a Pre-Application meeting is required for all development proposals, scheduled through the Community Development Department. SAFEbuilt is described on the City's site as "the City's new full-service company for plan review, permits, and inspections." As of May 28, 2026 the City's own Combination Building Inspector (Residential and Commercial Building, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Gas Piping) keeps office hours 7:30-9:00 a.m. Mondays and Fridays at 337 E. Bennett Ave. before going into the field for inspections; normal duty hours are 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Mondays and Fridays. No page names a roofing-specific permit type or states that reroofing specifically requires a permit (the general "erecting/altering/repairing" building-permit framework would ordinarily cover it), so roofing_permit_required is not asserted here.

Adopted code

A "Building Code Amendments for Cripple Creek 2018 IBC Codes" document is published on the City's Permits, Inspections & Contractors Licensing page, confirming the City has adopted the 2018 International Building Code family with local amendments; the amendments document was linked but not independently retrieved to confirm which companion codes (IRC, IECC, etc.) and specific sections are amended.

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