Salt Lake City Building Permit — Local services in Salt Lake City

One of the most difficult building departments to work with in Utah. There system for permitting application and inspection is extremely time consuming and complicated. James, one of their building inspectors, displayed incompetence on residential building code. He demanded we install 5/8' sheetrock on the ceiling of a basement finish. Furthermore, there we other items that were called out that he informed that were not in-fact IRC. Only other cities this difficult to work with are Park City & American...

Be aware of their predatory towing they do it to collect fees They sent car tow to take my truck without a valid reason I know in some cities they have regulations to keep the traffic going or to prevent accidents but I was targeted for being Hispanic And when I tried to fight the ticket they gave me wich car tow removed from my windshield they gave me some ridiculous reasons But they don't remove trailer campers without license plates from the west side...

These folks are terrible! The reviewers are inconsistent, egotistical, and clearly have no interest in moving building permits forward. Rather, their comments, clearly relate to the size of their ego, and they take great pleasure in making the building process difficult. I’ve worked with building departments all over the country for 30 years , and these folks are in the top three of the worst I’ve ever...