General building work permit checklist — Garland, Texas
Assembled from Garland’s own published permit rules. Every line below is quoted from a city document and linked to it. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or inferred from another jurisdiction.
Do you need a permit?
Garland requires a permit for general building work.
Garland requires a residential building permit for new homes, additions, major renovations, garage conversions, foundation repair and demolition. There is no blanket dollar-value exemption for structural work on a house; the city's small-project thresholds live in the individual permit categories instead (for example, accessory buildings are exempt only under 20 square feet, and roof repairs are exempt only when the repair value is under $2,000).
What Garland publishes for this permit
- 1 process step from application to final
- 1 published fee line from the city's fee schedule
- Checked against Garland's documents on September 15, 2026
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Sources
- building — permit rules ↗verified September 2026
Other permits Garland publishes rules for
Listed because the city publishes a separate rule for each type — not because this project necessarily triggers one. Whether it does depends on your scope of work.
- Deck permit checklist
- Fence permit checklist
- Shed permit checklist
- Water heater permit checklist
- Re-roof permit checklist
- Retaining wall permit checklist
- Electrical work permit checklist
BuildSpec is a reference, not the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm requirements with Garland before you build.