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Town of Telluride Building Department

Building permit authority for the Town of Telluride, Colorado. The Building Division performs all building plan reviews and inspections, all contractors and subcontractors must hold a Town of Telluride business license, and permits are submitted through the town's SmartGov online portal.

Jurisdiction
Town of Telluride, Colorado
Jurisdiction type
city
Address
Telluride, CO
Contact
  • url: https://telluride-co.gov/230/Building-Department
  • phone: 970-728-2175
Permit portal
Permit portal
Contractor registration required
Required
Registration details
  • license: All contractors and subcontractors are required to have a Town of Telluride business license to perform work within Town limits.
Inspection requirements
The Building Division performs all building plan reviews and inspections necessary to guarantee compliance with approved plans, current and adopted building codes, and applicable Town ordinances.
Adopted code
Building codes are adopted through Chapter 15 (Building Regulations) of the Telluride Municipal Code; the Town Council approved an ordinance adopting the 2024 edition of the International Building Code along with several other International Codes.
Drip edge
Required — Ordinance 1620's full 2024 IRC amendment list (Sec. 15-2-30, 19 numbered items, read in full) touches Section R105.2 only to insert "unheated" into Exception 5 (sidewalks and driveways) and contains no amendment anywhere to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the base 2024 IRC drip-edge requirement for asphalt shingle roofs applies unmodified in Telluride. About drip edge
Ice & water shield
Required — The Town's own amended Table R301.2 (Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria, 2024 IRC as adopted by Ordinance 1620, Sec. 15-2-30 item 4) lists "Ice barrier underlayment required: Yes" among the design criteria set for the Town of Telluride. This is a locally-set table entry in the Town's own adopted code, not merely a default inherited from the base model code. About ice & water barrier
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — Ordinance 1620's full amendment package for the 2024 IBC, IRC, and IEBC (Sec. 15-1 through Sec. 15-3, read in full) contains no UL 2218 or Class 4 impact-rating provision anywhere. The only roof-related design criteria the Town has locally set are wind speed, snow load, and ice barrier underlayment (the amended Table R301.2); none of those addresses impact resistance, and no insurance-discount language appears in the ordinance either.
Repair permit threshold
Ordinance 1620 amends Section R105.2, Work exempt from permit, at item 3 of Sec. 15-2-30. Read in full, that amendment inserts only the word "unheated" into Exception 5 (sidewalks and driveways) and touches no other exemption item. No dollar-value or square-footage threshold for roof repair or re-roofing is added, deleted, or modified, so the base 2024 IRC R105.2 exemption provisions apply unmodified in Telluride.
Wind design criteria
The Town's own Building Codes page, under "Additional Information," prints: "Wind 70 Snow Load 75 Exposure B." No units or basis are stated on the page itself.
Roof layer limit / recover
Ordinance 1620's full 2024 IRC amendment list (Sec. 15-2-30, 19 numbered items, read in full) contains no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the base 2024 IRC provisions on the number of roof-covering layers apply unmodified in Telluride. Base-code rule, read at 2024 IRC Section R908.4 (Roof recover), Exceptions and quoted here rather than left behind the ICC paywall: a roof recover "shall not be permitted" where "the existing roof has two or more applications of any type of roof covering" (nor where the existing covering is water soaked or deteriorated, or is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile). One existing layer may therefore be recovered; a second existing layer forces tear-off to the deck.
Deck & sheathing requirements
Ordinance 1620's full 2024 IRC amendment list (Sec. 15-2-30, 19 numbered items, read in full) contains no amendment to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the base 2024 IRC provisions on roof sheathing apply unmodified in Telluride.
Sales & use tax
9.47% combined on retail sales and furnishing of certain services (state 2.9% + San Miguel County 1% + Town of Telluride 4.5% + San Miguel Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) 1.07%). The Town of Telluride, a home-rule municipality, self-collects its own sales and excise taxes and its own Taxes page is the operative source rather than CO DOR DR 1002. One-half percent of the Town's 4.5% is dedicated to funding affordable housing. DR 1002 (a 2019/2020-vintage publication) prints the SMART district's rate as 0.25% rather than the Town's own currently-stated 1.07% -- one of the five DR 1002 staleness cases already documented for this wave -- so the Town's own figure is used here.

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When does a roof repair need a permit in Telluride, CO?

Ordinance 1620 amends Section R105.2, Work exempt from permit, at item 3 of Sec. 15-2-30. Read in full, that amendment inserts only the word "unheated" into Exception 5 (sidewalks and driveways) and touches no other exemption item. No dollar-value or square-footage threshold for roof repair or re-roofing is added, deleted, or modified, so the base 2024 IRC R105.2 exemption provisions apply unmodified in Telluride.

Is ice & water shield required in Telluride, CO?

Required — The Town's own amended Table R301.2 (Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria, 2024 IRC as adopted by Ordinance 1620, Sec. 15-2-30 item 4) lists "Ice barrier underlayment required: Yes" among the design criteria set for the Town of Telluride. This is a locally-set table entry in the Town's own adopted code, not merely a default inherited from the base model code..

Is drip edge required?

Required — Ordinance 1620's full 2024 IRC amendment list (Sec. 15-2-30, 19 numbered items, read in full) touches Section R105.2 only to insert "unheated" into Exception 5 (sidewalks and driveways) and contains no amendment anywhere to Chapter 9, Roof Assemblies, so the base 2024 IRC drip-edge requirement for asphalt shingle roofs applies unmodified in Telluride..

Do roofing contractors need a license or registration in Telluride, CO?

Required. All contractors and subcontractors are required to have a Town of Telluride business license to perform work within Town limits..

What building code does Telluride, CO use?

Building codes are adopted through Chapter 15 (Building Regulations) of the Telluride Municipal Code; the Town Council approved an ordinance adopting the 2024 edition of the International Building Code along with several other International Codes.