Development Services Department Municipality of Anchorage

06/16/2025

We will be closed Thursday, June 19, 2025 for Juneteenth.
There will be NO Inspections on Thursday.
We will return to the office, Friday, June 20, 2025 at 9 a.m.

01/16/2025

Our offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

There will be NO INSPECTIONS Monday.

Our offices will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

01/16/2025

We are currently experiencing staffing shortages in our Pluming/Mechanical Inspections division.

Please schedule your inspections as usual, but during this shortage we cannot guarantee a same day inspection.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

07/01/2024

Our offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
There will be NO INSPECTIONS Thursday.
Our offices will re-open on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Please have a safe and happy 4th!

03/04/2024

ENDING
The last day of the
Wednesday Morning Closures
for the
Permit Counter and Plan Review Staff
will be March 13, 2024.

Thank you for your patience and understanding
during our Wednesday permit counter closure.

01/12/2024

We will be closed Monday,
January 15, 2024, for the holiday.

There will be NO inspections on​ Monday.

We will return to the office on Tuesday,
January 16, 2024 at 9 a.m.

12/22/2023

We will be closed Monday, Dec​ember 25, 2023
for the Christmas Holiday.

There will be NO inspections over the weekend and Monday.

We will return to the offi​​ce on Tuesday,
December 26, 2023 at 9 a.m.

AND

We will be closed Monday,
January 1, 2024, for New Years.

There will be NO inspections over the weekend
and​ Monday.

We will return to the office on Tuesday,
January 2, 2024 at 9 a.m.

12/18/2023

The week of December 18-22, we will only have one permit manager available AND there will be NO Commercial Permitting Staff available on December 22, 2023.

Thank you for understanding and patience.

11/21/2023

We will be closed Thursday & Friday, Nov​ember 23 & 24, 2023

for the Thanksgiving Holiday observance.

There will be NO inspections Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

We will return to the office on Monday, November 27, 2023 at 9 a.m.

11/21/2023

SNOW REMOVAL NOTICE ​​
Issued November 20, 2023

Handout AG.30
Snow Removal Guidance

​​Buildings in Anchorage are required to be designed and constructed to support a minimum of 40 pounds per square foot (psf) snow load. The 40 psf snow load requirement dates back (at least) to the 1960s. We know, however, from numerous roof failures that many buildings in our community cannot safely support this much weight. Roof failures, including collapse, have occurred when roofs were supporting substantially less snow weight than the code minimum. These buildings were constructed prior to 1990 and generally have a wooden roof structure. Most failures involve wooden trusses with metal gang nail plates; however, other types of construction have had failures. These roof failures are primarily the result of design and/or construction deficiencies. Click on the here ​to see the Handout. This handout is under our Codes, ​Policies & Handouts page.

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​OUT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

Draft Policy S.12​

Wood Truss Roof Framing
Due Diligence Investigation

Dra​ft Policy S.12 and Optional form​​
This draft policy applies to buildings having metal plate connected wood trusses (also called pre-engineered wood trusses or gang nail trusses) generally constructed prior to 1990 that have experienced distress, failure
and/or collapse.

Background
In recent winters Anchorage has experienced several commercial building roof failures attributable to metal plate connected wood trusses where the failures occurred under snow loads substantially less than expected minimum design levels. This includes one building suffering two instances of truss failure with each instance occurring in different portions of the building in separate years.
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The Municipality welcomes any comments or feedback.

Written comments must be received
by 5:00 p.m. on December 15, 2023
to be considered.

Please send your comments to [email protected]​.
You may also deliver comments to us at 4700 Elmore Road,
or mail to:

Development Services Department
Municipality of Anchorage
P.O. Box 196650
Anchorage, AK 99519-6650

We look forward to hearing from you.
Ross Noffsinger
Acting Building Official

Official Website of the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska

11/13/2023

11/06/2023

We will be closed Friday, Nov​ember 10, 2023 for Veteran's Day observance.

There will be NO inspections Friday or Saturday.

We will return to the office on Monday, November 13, 2023 at 9 a.m.