Amarillo, Texas Building Permit Cost Calculator

Amarillo Building Safety prices residential building permits on a straight per-square-foot basis rather than a valuation table: one rate for new construction and a lower rate for remodels and additions subject to a dollar minimum, plus a separate flat residential plan review/application fee. Commercial work is valuation-driven, with the application fee and the permit fee each computed as a small decimal multiplier of the declared project value, each subject to its own minimum. A flat technology fee is added to every permit, and failed inspections are billed a flat re-inspection fee. The page was last updated March 11, 2025; no fiscal-year effective date is printed on the schedule itself.

There is no deck-specific line on the Building Safety fee schedule. A permit-required deck is charged as a residential addition at the published per-square-foot remodel/addition rate subject to the flat minimum, plus the residential plan review/application fee and the universal technology fee. Any electrical run to the deck is a separate standalone electrical permit. Because no dedicated deck fee is published, the amounts below are the governing charges.

Amarillo charges a single flat fee for a standalone electrical permit rather than the per-outlet, per-fixture or per-amperage tables used by many cities, so a panel upgrade and a small circuit addition cost the same. The flat technology fee is added to every permit. Failed inspections carry a flat re-inspection fee equal to the permit fee itself. Solar photovoltaic work is a separate, higher flat permit. Page last updated March 11, 2025.

Because ordinary residential fences up to 8 feet are exempt, the Building Safety fee schedule publishes no fence permit fee. The only fence work that is priced is pool barrier work, which is captured within the residential swimming pool permit. The technology fee applies to any permit issued. The governing amounts below are the swimming pool permit and the technology fee, not a fence-specific charge.

Residential roofing is a single flat-fee permit in Amarillo, not valuation- or square-based, so the cost is the same for a small ranch house and a large two-story. The universal technology fee is added on top, and a failed roof inspection is billed at the flat re-inspection rate. Related envelope work each carries its own separate flat permit (windows, siding/exterior veneer), so a re-roof combined with window replacement is billed as two permits.

The fee schedule contains no retaining wall line item. A permit-required wall is processed as a residential or commercial building permit: residential at the per-square-foot remodel/addition rate with a flat minimum, or commercial as a percentage of declared value with separate application and permit multipliers. The residential plan review/application fee and the universal technology fee apply, and engineered walls incur review time. Amounts below are the governing charges rather than a dedicated wall fee.

No accessory-structure or shed line exists on the Building Safety fee schedule. A shed over the 200-square-foot exemption is permitted as a residential building/addition at the published per-square-foot rate with the flat minimum, plus the residential plan review/application fee and the technology fee. Electrical service to a detached shed is a separate standalone electrical permit. The governing amounts are below.

There is no per-fixture plumbing table in Amarillo. A water heater change-out is covered by the flat standalone plumbing permit fee, with the flat technology fee added, and a matching flat re-inspection fee if the work fails. Mechanical scope (venting, gas appliance connection) is a separate standalone mechanical permit at the same flat rate if it is pulled separately. Because no water-heater-specific line exists, the standalone plumbing permit is the governing amount.