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About Development Services • What's happening • Useful information • Services available
Preserving and protecting the lives and property of our residents
Development Services is responsible for assisting our customers in understanding and complying with the Building and Rehabilitation Code, Zoning Ordinance, Fences and Walls Ordinance, Floodplain Management Ordinance, Parking Station Ordinance, Travel Trailers and Mobile Homes Ordinance, Aviation Ordinance concerning Airport height Zones, Subdivision Ordinance and other ordinances related to the development process in Kansas City, Mo. Development Services is organized into six divisions to better serve you: Business Services, Inspections, Investigations, Permits, Plans Review and Land Development, and has 157 full-time associates who strive to conduct themselves in accordance with our Canons of Ethics. Development Services also provides staff support to the Building and Fire Codes Board of Appeals and has an associate who is a member of the Missouri Elevator Safety Board.
About Development Services
What's happening
Useful information
KIVANET - Online access to KivaNet - Kansas City's land, permitting, inspections and request for services information system. KivaNet user guide. Also, access a KIVANET report that provides an up-to-date list of outstanding correction items from all inspections performed on a permit. Permit type and number are required to run the report:
Inpection Summary Report
Note: Some of the following links require Adobe Acrobat.
- Model codes adopted: the Kansas City Building and Rehabilitation Code - Effective Jan. 14, 2008
- Information bulletins and interpretations - ordinances, procedures, codes and code interpretations
- How to obtain electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits
- Checklist for building plans submittal (IB110)
- Requirements for plans review submittal, one- and two-family dwellings (IB100); also see (IB122)
- Fee schedule - effective August 25, 2008
- Contractor licensing information - includes current listing of licensed contractors and certificate holders
- Approved listing of authorized one- and two-family third party inspectors - also see IB102 on this optional program
- Erosion control - Departmental responsibilities (see IB 128, page 5); APWA Single Family Residential Standard Design Booklet
- Garage door enforcement - beginning with permits issued after Jan. 2, 2004.
- Residential building contractor licensing - Since Nov. 1, 2004, any contractor obtaining building permits for regulated work on one- and two-family dwellings, townhouses and detached accessory buildings greater than 400 square feet in area have been required to hold a residential building contractors license. All residential building contractors shall have a qualified residential building supervisor in place in order to operate as such. An individual holding a residential building certification must complete 32 hours of continuing education over a four year renewal period to maintain his/her certification. Each certificate and license is good for four years from the date of issuance and must be renewed quadrennially thereafter. A renewal notice will be mailed one month prior to the expiration date of the certificate or license. For more information, see contractor licensing information
- Residential Deck Construction Guidelines - Published by the Johnson County Contractor Licensing Program. Please be advised that this document contains information on suggested best practices that may exceed the minimum requirements of the Kansas City Building and Rehabilitation Code. Also note that Development Services requires a site plan, but not deck plans, to obtain a permit.
- Backflow prevention reporting requirements
- Energy calculation software from the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Plans review process chart
- Development process flow chart
- Plans review - most commonly omitted items
- Frequently asked questions
- Infrastructure reference standards and requirements
- Links to helpful sites
Services available
E-mail: cpd-ds@kcmo.org
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Donald Booth, PE, CBO
