Projects Requiring a Permit

  • New residential construction

  • Building additions

  • Building remodeling (Call the Office: Conditions may/may not apply.)

  • Structural alterations

  • Swimming pools

  • Accessory apartments or pool houses

  • Fences

  • Gates, gatehouses, entranceways

  • Steeples/architectural features

  • Decks/porches

  • Attached or detached garages

  • Sheds, storage buildings, or other accessory buildings

  • Retaining walls

  • Signs (only available to developers)

  • Demolition of a structure (Call the Office: Additional requirements may apply.)

  • Transporting or moving any structure, on any street within Forest Hills

  • Impervious surfaces: driveways, patios, sidewalks

  • Excavation/land disturbance

  • Street cut

  • Roof alteration including replacing shingles and decking in like kind

  • Temporary buildings: construction office, dumpster, port-a-potty

  • Back up Generators, HVAC Slabs, Equipment Slabs