Permit Office (AHJ)
City of Tempe Community Development Department, Development Services / Building Safety
Tempe, AZ · Licensed Professional Engineering
Site engineering that clears local review — grading, drainage, and utilities designed to each jurisdiction's published standards from day one.
Tempe civil design begins with parcel-specific drainage and floodplain review: FEMA-mapped Salt River and wash areas, City grading and stormwater criteria, ADA routes, dust and erosion controls, rights-of-way, and utility corridors can all change the site plan. Confirm retention or detention, fire access, SRP clearances, and City water and wastewater alignments before final civil documents.
Code adoptions and local amendments change on multi-year cycles. The state source verification date is 2026-07-28; we verify the governing editions with City of Tempe Community Development Department, Development Services / Building Safety at project kickoff.
Commercial applicants submit construction documents to Building Safety, then proceed through code review, permit issuance, inspections, and closeout. The decisive early step in Tempe is the code edition: the City's transition allows 2018 or 2024 submittals through December 31, 2026, so the governing edition and any project-specific submittal requirements are confirmed with Building Safety before filing, and the design is built to that single path from the start.
Tempe's local amendment package applies to the adopted codes, and the City's green-building guidance confirms Solar Ready provisions in the IECC. The same guidance describes EV-ready provisions as being pursued rather than confirming them as a universal adopted requirement; verify the ordinance and project-specific amendments with Building Safety.
The City of Tempe provides municipal water and wastewater service within its service area. Confirm SRP capacity, service voltage, transformer and distributed-generation requirements, plus City meter, capacity, and sewer-connection requirements, for the actual parcel before design is fixed.
Tempe has a substantial commercial base tied to Arizona State University and its research and innovation ecosystem, the Novus Innovation Corridor, technology and professional offices, biotech and advanced services, multifamily, retail, hospitality, and corridor redevelopment. These sectors create varied MEP, energy, tenant-improvement, and site-engineering demand.
Reviewed 2026-09-11. Code editions and local requirements can change; confirm the current requirements with the authority having jurisdiction before design.
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