Building Department

The Department Secretary can be reached at the office, except during the lunch hour. She is available to assist with general questions.

Plans may be dropped off at the office, information picked up, and messages left with her.

• Code enforced to 2018 IBC and IRC requirements
• The building department requires new residence and commercial plans to be engineer stamped 
• Frost depth: 28 inches
• Seismic Zone: D
• Wind exposer – C 85 miles per hour
• Design loads for Adams County:
  Snow loads – Council, Salmon River, Indian Valley areas: 80 lbs per sq ft (live), New Meadows area: 100 lbs., Rock Flat, Bear: 120
  Wind load – 85 miles per hour
• Set back required by County:
  20 ft off property line
  10 ft between buildings
  80 ft from the center line of a right-of-way (unless in a subdivision)