Building Permit Fees in Grand Rapids, MI (2026)

City of Grand Rapids FY2027 fee schedule (building inspections, effective July 1, 2026). This page cites it as retrieved Oct 7, 2026.

The City of Grand Rapids Development Center / Building Inspections is the office for this fee. This is the City of Grand Rapids, not Kentwood or Wyoming, and not other suburbs.

For a residential reroof on this path, a permit is required. The schedule is the FY2027 fee schedule, effective July 1, 2026.

The official fee band is $91 / $91 / $91. The typical project value is $12,000.

The job values used for this fee are $8,000 low, $12,000 typical, and $22,000 high. Walk the typical first.

The $12,000 typical residential reroof uses the flat $66 residential re-roofing line plus the $25 1-2 family zoning permit, so the permit fee is $91. That residential re-roofing line is a flat $66 on the FY2027 schedule.

Its note says FY2027 flat. Included.

The zoning permit is $25. Its note says FY2027 footnote 6: typically added to 1-2 family building permits.

Included. Both lines are included in the $91 total, so this page does not add the $66 or the $25 a second time. $66 plus $25 equals $91.

Low and high match because the $8,000 low job and the $22,000 high job use the same flat residential re-roofing line and the same zoning permit, so the low fee is $91 and the high fee is $91. The $91 high is the same total as the $91 typical and is not a second charge.

Those job values of $8,000 and $12,000 and $22,000 do not change the fee. Roof area is not an input to this listed permit total.

Documented roof sizes of 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,800 sq ft do not change the $91. The $25 zoning permit is printed as typically added.

Confirm with the City of Grand Rapids Development Center / Building Inspections whether that zoning permit applies to your reroof. This page does not claim the zoning permit is waived.

This page does not state a separate plan-review fee, a technology fee, or an inspection add-on for this path. This page does not invent plan-review add-ons.

This page does not invent technology fees. This page does not invent a fee beyond the official $91.

• Typical 3-ton (36,000 BTU) like-for-like split = $52 + furnace $21 + AC $21 = $94.00.

Low = furnace only $73.00. High = typical + additional inspection $42 = $136.00.

Earlier figures used $21 for that inspection.

Typical/low/high = $66 + $25 = $91.00. Typical-job spec 16×20 = 320 sf does not change this flat.

City of Grand Rapids FY2027 fee schedule (building inspections, effective July 1, 2026). The City of Grand Rapids Development Center / Building Inspections is the office for this fee, and the schedule used here was retrieved Oct 7, 2026.

This is the City of Grand Rapids, not Kentwood or Wyoming, and not Kent County. A permit is required for a typical kitchen remodel.

The building permit is valuation-based: $54 covers the first $1,000 of job valuation, and each additional $1,000 costs $6.80. A 1-2 family zoning permit of $25 is then added.

The fee band on this page is $174.20 low, $310.20 typical, and $582.20 high. Walk the typical $35,000 job first.

The first $1,000 sits in the $54 base, so it is not counted again at $6.80. The rest of the valuation is 34 additional thousands. $54 + $6.80 x 34 = $285.20, which is the building permit.

Add the zoning permit: $285.20 + $25 = $310.20. That $310.20 is the typical total, and both lines are included.

The building-permit line is $285.20 (first $1,000 in the base) and the zoning line is $25. The low band is a $15,000 valuation.

The first $1,000 sits in the $54 base, and 14 additional thousands remain. $54 + $6.80 x 14 = $149.20 for the building permit, then add zoning: $149.20 + $25 = $174.20. The high band is a $75,000 valuation.

The first $1,000 sits in the $54 base, and 74 additional thousands remain. $54 + $6.80 x 74 = $557.20 for the building permit, then add zoning: $557.20 + $25 = $582.20. The $582.20 high is the fee at that larger valuation.

It is not stacked on top of the $310.20 typical. Kitchen size is not the fee basis.

The typical job is 200 sf of kitchen, but kitchen floor area does not set the permit. Job valuation does.

Changing the room size does not, by itself, change the $174.20, $310.20, or $582.20 totals. The plan-review column on the FY2027 table applies to commercial totals only, so it is not added to these residential kitchen totals.

Trade permits (electrical, plumbing, mechanical) can be separate from the building permit, and those trade permits are not computed in these totals.