Building Inspections

The City’s Building Inspection and Assessment Department is responsible for issuing permits, conducting inspections, enforcing the zoning code, and providing staff support to the City Plan Commission. The goal of the Department is to provide professional and cost-effective inspection services that will ensure that our homes and businesses are constructed correctly and with quality materials in order to preserve public safety and neighborhood property values. Until June 1999, the City employed one full-time Building Inspector/Assessor. In addition, he acted as the Health Officer. This employee retired and the City is now contracting with two firms, Independent Inspections, to provide Building Inspection services and Equitable Appraisals, to provide Assessing Services. The Health Officer responsibilities have been given to the Public Works Manager. There is no expense for Building Inspection because the fee paid to the firm is 90 percent of the revenues collected. The City pays them no other fee and keeps the remaining 10 percent of the revenues.

A building permit is needed for a variety of building projects. Some examples of projects that would need a building permit are:

*Building an addition on your house		*Remodeling your house
*Building a garage		*Installing new siding
*Building a deck		*Installing new windows in your house
*New wiring		*New plumbing
*Installing a new furnace or a/c		*Changing the pitch of your roof

Please check with the building inspector or City Hall if you are unsure whether you need a building permit. Building permits must be obtained before starting your project or the fees will be doubled.

The City has contracted with Independent Inspections, Ltd. for a part-time building inspector. Dan Coffey is now our building inspectors for the City of Clintonville. Their hours are Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Inspections and additional office hours are available by appointment.

You can contact Dan at the times listed above by calling City Hall at (715) 823-7600. They can also be contacted at other times by calling 1 (800) 422-5220, Monday-Friday from 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

The following SAMPLE permits are available to download. Do not fill out these forms, you must come to City Hall to fill out the real forms. The samples are in Adobe Reader format (.pdf). If you need the Adobe reader please go to www.adobe.com and download it, it's free!