What does a Colorado Springs ADU permit cost?
✓ Verified against code · August 19, 2026
Colorado Springs charges no land-use application fee for an ADU. The permit itself is administrative: a site plan plus a building permit reviewed against objective standards, with a required utility ability-to-serve determination and a 14-day posted public notice before the permit issues. The city has not published a review timeline for this process.
Citation: UDC 7.3.304E.1.i–j
How current is this?
Colorado Springs’s ADU rules run under UDC 7.3.304E (City Code Ch. 7) (Ordinance 25-45). Colorado Springs adopted on time — and pushed back on purpose. Council amended the detached-ADU height cap down to 16 ft from the floor, restored a parking requirement staff had proposed eliminating, and wrote into the ordinance's recitals that conflicting state laws 'may be superseded by local law' under home rule, even while seeking supportive-jurisdiction status. We verified this answer against primary sources on August 19, 2026, and every change we catch is logged in the changelog.
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Not legal advice — lot-specific overlays can change the answer for your parcel. The citation above points at the governing code section; check it, or ask the city to confirm.