Welcome to the City of San Jose’s Development Center web-site. The Development Center is located at 200 East Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose.
Our business hours are as follows:
General office hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Office hours for walk-in customers (i.e. without appointments) for Building and Planning counter services are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. All Permit Center Applications may be submitted without appointment from
9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Effective May 26, 2009. See flyer for details.
Phone Service:
Beginning July 27, 2009, the Planning Phone Service Hours will be from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday. During these hours, zoning or other land use information will continue to be available by phone at (408) 535-3555. Outside of these hours, you can access information through this website via the links to the left.
Appointments for service can be obtained by contacting Development Services at (408) 535-3555.
At this site you will find information and web-links that will instruct you how to obtain development review services from the City of San Jose. All of the Development Services staff have been co-located into the Development Services Center which occupies the first two floors of City Hall. As the Capital of Silicon Valley, San Jose also offers the most comprehensive array of on-line permit search and application submittal services of any City in the world. You can access these services at http://www.sjpermits.org/permits/permits/.
Directions from the Parking Garage: Enter the parking garage located under City Hall from 6th Street. (Please note maximum vehicle height of 8 feet 2 inches for garage entrance clearance). Pull forward and obtain a parking receipt. After parking, locate the blue "Tower" sign and take the elevator to the 1st floor. Please bring your parking receipt with you. Exit the elevator and proceed to the information desk on the first floor. You will be issued a service ticket from the reception staff. Be sure to have your parking receipt validated when you receive your service ticket.
San Jose City Hall
<Name or Title of person>,<Permit#>
<Division><Room> 200 E. Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA 95113-1905 Phone: (408) 535-3555
Divisions:
Planning: Rm T-300
Public Works: Rm T-300 Fire Prevention: Rm T-200 Development Services: Rm T-200 Building-Commercial: Rm T-200
Building- Residential: Rm T-100
Please mark the envelope and all cover pages of any mailed-in documents with the Plan Check Number orPermit Number, and the name or title of the person it should be directed to, if known.
Special Inspection Reports should be directed to: Building Supervisor,Insp.Area #____, Rm T-200
Any mailed-in Plan Check submittals MUST have a Plan Check Number (ex/ 08-012345-PC) already assigned priorto submission. Contact (408) 535-7603 (vm) for questions on Online Permit Submittals.
The City can not be responsible for lost submissions.
