§ 18.02.105.5. Permits required for every building.

Permits shall be required for every building, structure, or service system. This includes every separate building or structure regardless of the number of buildings or structures located on the same site or lot and regardless of the ownership of such buildings, structures or service systems. For projects where there are multiple buildings of similar nature on a single parcel, such as apartment complexes or storage units, the master building permit fee shall be calculated as if the project were a single building.

Exceptions:

For one- or two-family dwellings; the accessory buildings, structures, and fences may be permitted under the same permit as the principal building or structure provided all such accessory buildings, structures and fences are located on the same site or lot and are under the same ownership as the principal building or structure.

1.

All portions of the same building, structure or service system created by dividing one building, structure, or service system by fire walls shall be permitted under the same permit provided all such portions thus created are located on the same site or lot and are under the same ownership, and are intended for construction under the same schedules.

2.

The building official may allow construction of minor, related work of the same type under one permit for more than one building, structure, or service system when located on the same site or lot and under the same ownership.

3.

In the case of City Annual Permits, the building official may allow for the use of a single permit to be issued to a City Department that will apply to all buildings, structures, or service systems under their control that are owned or operated by the City of El Paso.

(Ord. No. 17749, § A, 3-6-2012, eff. 5-1-2012; Ord. No. 18508 , § 1, 5-31-2016)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 18508 , § 1, adopted May 31, 2016, set out provisions amending and, in effect, renumbering § 18.02.105.5 as 18.02.105.3.5. To maintain the numeric sequencing presented within this chapter, this section has been renumbered as § 18.02.105.5, at the discretion of the editor.