Planning and Development Services — Building Safety Division
- Phone
- (913) 895-6000
- Hours
- Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. CT
Kansas
Overland Park, KS permit fees and requirements
Overland Park prices construction with two multipliers on two definitions of value:
new construction derives its valuation from the ICC Building Valuation Data Tables and pays 0.0035 × valuation (Portfolio Homes: same multiplier, plan review waived); work at $19,000 and above on the applicant's submitted value pays 0.0050 × valuation. Work of $19,000 or less pays flats — $30 to $5,000, $50 to $19,000 — each plus a $30 flat plan review (printed totals $60/$80). Larger projects' plan review is not a fee at all but a payment split: 50% at submission. There is no separate electrical or plumbing permit — the trades price inside the building permit.
Permit costs we have worked out
Each page shows the fee components, the formula the jurisdiction uses, and a worked example you can follow by hand.
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| Permit | Category | Last reviewed |
|---|---|---|
| Overland Park building permit cost | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Overland Park electrical permit cost | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Overland Park plumbing permit cost | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Overland Park
Overland Park's fee schedule is one consolidated document, effective August 1, 2025, covering planning approvals, sign permits and construction permits together — and it is explicit about its own machinery. The Building Official reviews the Permit Fee Multiplier and the ICC Building Valuation Data Tables with the City Manager's Office every year, and the ICC tables' per-square-foot figures are what turn a building's area and construction type into the valuation the 0.0035 multiplies.
The two-multiplier design does real work: the ICC path prices a new building on what the code says it should cost to build, while the 0.0050 path prices a remodel on what the applicant actually declares — 'building cost, all finish work, painting, paving, electrical, plumbing, heating, a/c, elevators, fire protection equipment.' The $19,000 seam between the regimes is also where the flats end: below it, $30 or $50 plus the $30 flat plan review, with the printed totals $60 and $80.
The plan-review split confuses people, and the schedule is careful: on a large project, 50% of the permit fee is paid when plans are submitted — for plan review services — and the other half at approval. Nothing is added. The same schedule carries the city's incentive regime: EV Ready and Solar Ready fee reductions for new single-family homes, duplexes and townhouses ($500 and $600 per dwelling unit respectively, 100% for retrofit EV circuits, $1,300 per EV Ready space in multi-family), all sunsetting December 31, 2027.
What the schedule does not contain is any trade permit. Overland Park prices buildings, not scopes: electrical, plumbing, heating and a/c ride inside the project's permit, and the utilities' own tap fees (WaterOne, Johnson County Wastewater) belong to other jurisdictions.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Two declared paths. The ICC path reads derived valuation — square footage × the ICC Building Valuation Data Tables' figure for construction type and occupancy, at 0.0035 — and is the new-construction regime. The submitted path reads the applicant's declared total — all construction work including the trades — at 0.0050, from $19,000 up. Below $19,000 neither applies: the flats ($30/$50 + $30) price the work directly.
Who to contact
The office that issues the permit, with the details we have verified. Confirm current hours before travelling.
What these fees do not include
The list is not a disclaimer: on a new house the fees left out can outweigh the permit fee several times over. Every entry here is stated on the permit page as well.
Not included in our estimates
These figures are Overland Park's own permit amounts. They are not a project cost, and they exclude:
- Trade permits as separate charges. None exists in the schedule; the trades price inside the building permit, and the electrical/plumbing pages here model the small-project flat tiers that stand-alone trade-scale work actually pays.
- Land disturbance / site development permits (0.0050 × valuation, same flats below $19,000) — recorded, not modelled.
- The EV/Solar incentive regime — $500–$1,300 per unit/space reductions, all sunsetting 2027-12-31 — recorded so the sunset is on the record.
- Event and administrative rows — moving permits $500, floodplain $15, reinspection $50/$140, after-hours inspections $75/hr (2-hr min), sign permits $60 + $1.25/sq ft, Code Board of Appeals $250, rental licensing $120 biennially.
- Utility tap fees — WaterOne and Johnson County Wastewater set their own.
Official sources for this jurisdiction
The documents these figures are transcribed from. Where a source contradicts itself we keep both readings and say so on the permit page.
- Fee schedule (PDF)CityPrimary source
Development Approval and Permit Fees — effective 08/01/2025
Read 2026-09-26 (7-pp. PDF, HTTP 200 from the City's CivicPlus asset host; the HTML explainer at opkansas.gov/common-permit-fees is JS-rendered and read in a browser, and it agrees with the PDF on every amount). Carries: the 0.0035 ICC-path new-construction multiplier and the 0.0050 applicant-submitted-value multiplier at the $19,000 seam; the $30/$50 flat building-permit tiers for work of $19,000 or less with the $30 flat plan review (printed totals $60/$80); the 50%-at-submission payment split for plan review on larger projects; Portfolio Homes (0.0035, plan review waived); land disturbance at 0.0050; moving $500; floodplain $15; reinspection $50/$140; after-hours $75/hr (2-hr min); sign permits $60 + $1.25/sq ft; and the EV/Solar fee reductions that sunset 12-31-2027. No separate electrical, plumbing or mechanical permit exists anywhere in the schedule — the valuation definition includes the trades.