El Paso County Permit Monitoring: Track County Permits Automatically

El Paso County handles building permits for unincorporated areas surrounding the City of El Paso. If your project sits outside city limits — in areas like Horizon City, Canutillo, Vinton, or the unincorporated county — your permits go through the county system, not the city.

How County Permitting Differs from City

El Paso County runs its own Accela instance, separate from the City of El Paso. While the platform is the same, the reviewing departments, workflows, and timelines can differ. County reviews tend to involve fewer departments than city reviews, but the process still requires regular monitoring to catch status changes and conditions.

What the County Reviews

• Building Standards — Reviews code compliance for residential and commercial construction
• Fire Marshal — Reviews fire safety and suppression requirements
• Environmental Services — Reviews septic, water, and environmental compliance for rural parcels
• Floodplain Management — Reviews flood zone compliance for properties in or near floodplains

For projects in unincorporated areas, environmental and floodplain reviews can be especially important — and are often the departments that hold up approvals.

Automated County Permit Monitoring

TrackingPermitsconnects to El Paso County's Accela system via API, the same way we connect to the City of El Paso and other Accela jurisdictions. Every morning before 6am CT, we pull workflow statuses and conditions for your county permits and include them in your daily digest.

If you have permits in both the City of El Paso and El Paso County, they all appear in the same email — clearly labeled by jurisdiction. No need to check two separate portals.