City of Kansas City, Missouri — City Planning and Development Department, Permit Center
- Phone
- 816-513-1500
- Hours
- Permit Center 816-513-1500 option 3
Missouri
Kansas City, MO permit fees and requirements
Kansas City prices every commercial trade the same way:
$1–$50,000 as a flat table ($48 to $686), then $686 + $12.50 per $1,000 to $200,000, $2,561 + $8.30 to $1,000,000, and $9,201 + $3.60 beyond — each band chaining to the one below. The ladder is charged once per building per trade on that trade's declared valuation. Plan review at one-half is a credited prepayment, not a second fee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City, Missouri building permit cost | structural | 2026-09-26 |
| Kansas City, Missouri electrical permit cost | electrical | 2026-09-26 |
| Kansas City, Missouri plumbing permit cost | plumbing | 2026-09-26 |
Local context
What is specific to Kansas City
One department, one sheet, every trade on the same ladder. The City Planning and Development Department's Permit Fee Schedule for Commercial Projects Including Residential Buildings with Three or More Dwelling Units is a single 1-page PDF — Building, Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical, Elevator and Fire Protection all together, each valuation-billed separately per building with a per-trade valuation supplied at application. The sheet's header is explicit: 'PERMIT FEES SHALL BE CALCULATED SEPARATELY FOR EACH BUILDING' and 'separate construction valuation shall be provided for each trade of work involved in the project.' The schedule prints no technology fee, no state surcharge, and no one- or two-family residential ladder from this sandbox — the City's fee-schedule hub answers 403 here, so no such amount is invented.
Two features make this the dataset's quirkiest ladder. First, the $1–$50,000 block is 50 flat brackets, not a rate: '$1–500 $48.00', '$501–2,000 $86.00', '$2,001–3,000 $98.50' … '$49,001–50,000 $686.00', one amount per $1,000 window. $12,300 of valuation pays $223.50 there — the $12,001–13,000 row — not $12,300 × a cent rate. Second, the bands above it chain exactly: $686.00 + 150 × $12.50 = $2,561.00, and $2,561.00 + 800 × $8.30 = $9,201.00 — the opposite of Nashville's three seams and Memphis's chain in cents-per-thousand, now chain by the *ladder's own arithmetic* on a valuation table.
The plan-review block is why this jurisdiction contributes no `plan_review` row at all. Newark charges 20% as a `plan_review` component; Kansas City writes 'A fee of one-half of the permit cost is required … this will be credited towards the total fee when the permit is issued.' — a credited prepayment, named on every page. Five ancillary flats sit beside it: changes $50.00, minimum partial $77.00, minimum supplemental $50.00, resubmittal one-eighth capped at $272.00, express $69.00.
Valuation
How valuation is determined here
Every rule here reads `valuation` in cents — the trade's declared construction valuation per building, as the application supplies it.
The schedule mixes two shapes: a `tiered_table` from $1 to $50,000 — 50 flat brackets — and three `per_thousand` bands above it, each `baseCents + centsPerThousand per $1,000 of valuation above a threshold, or fraction thereof`. The `or fraction thereof` rounds the chargeable amount above the threshold up to the next whole $1,000 (`incrementCents: $1,000`). The table below $50,000 prints brackets rather than a rate, so no `thresholdCents` or `incrementCents` sits on it; the bands above it are the ones that carry them, at $12.50 / $8.30 / $3.60 per $1,000.
The printed bases in the band rows are the chain: $686.00 + 150 × $12.50 is $2,561.00, and $2,561.00 + 800 × $8.30 is $9,201.00 — so a $200,000 commercial job and a $1,000,000 one each sit on an amount the band below produces. A $49,001–50,000 job is still $686.00 whether the valuation is $49,500 or $49,999; put the same value at $50,100 and it is $686.00 + $1 × $12.50.
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 are the Kansas City commercial building, electrical and plumbing permit fees on declared valuation. They are not a project cost, and they exclude:
- The residential one- and two-family ladder — no Kansas City schedule for that class was readable from this sandbox, so no amount is estimated.
- Plan review's half-fee as a second charge — credited prepayment, named above.
- The five ancillary flats — $50.00 for review of changes to previously approved plans; $77.00 minimum partial permit fee (each partial permit is a separate permit fee, not a supplemental one, so dividing a job into partials costs more than one full permit); $50.00 minimum supplemental permit fee; resubmittal plan review — one-eighth of the total fee, capped at $272.00, when previously identified deficiencies remain uncorrected; $69.00 express plan review paid prior to meeting with the plan reviewer.
- Mechanical, elevator and fire protection fees beyond the ladder — those trades' valuations are read on the same sheet against the same ladder; no separate mechanical-side pricing beyond the ladder is priced here.
- Citations, penalties, appeal or zoning fees — not on this sheet.
- State or county surcharge and technology fees — none is printed on this schedule.
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
Read 2026-09-26 as a 68,049-byte PDF (SHA-256 350051f8f1b081bee9e716bc60050284123aa280c07d2068edb6b7b59b8bda84, HTTP 200) with pymupdf text extraction; printed 05/01/2012 from Ord #080766 eff. 05/01/2012. One page carries the whole commercial ladder: $1–$50,000 flat table ($48.00–$686.00 in 50 brackets), $50,001–$200,000 at $686.00 + $12.50 per $1,000 or fraction, $200,001–$1,000,000 at $2,561.00 + $8.30, and $1,000,001+ at $9,201.00 + $3.60 — each band chaining to the one below. The same page states the credited plan-review share (one-half), the $50 changes / $77 partial-minimum / $50 supplemental / 1/8 capped at $272 resubmittal / $69 express flats, and the per-trade-per-building instruction.