Culver City building permit search: Accela Citizen Portal and old permit records

Which addresses this covers

The Building Safety Division issues permits inside Culver City limits, including the parts of the city with a Los Angeles 90066 mailing address. Palms, Mar Vista and Del Rey get permits from the City of Los Angeles, and unincorporated Ladera Heights from Los Angeles County.

How to look up the permits on a Culver City address

1. Open the Citizen Portal's Building search.
2. Choose Site Address from the search drop-down and enter the street number and street name. Leave the city and ZIP blank if the first try finds nothing.
3. Open each record on the address. Culver City files electrical, plumbing and mechanical work as separate records from the building permit, so one remodel can show three or four.
4. Read each record's status and inspection list.
5. To check the firm, search again by Contractor License Information with the state licence number from your contract, then look that number up at the CSLB.

What the statuses mean

Of permits opened October 2024 to September 2025, 72.9% had reached Finaled by our count and 27.1% were still open. An Issued permit more than a year old is worth asking the contractor about before the last payment.

When the record you want is not online

The city takes public records requests through culvercity.nextrequest.com; you can also write by mail, in person or to city.clerk@culvercity.org. The city's Public Records Request page lists building permits and site plans among its records, aims to respond within 10 days, and says electronic copies are free (read 24 October 2026). If you are selling, the Building Safety page points sellers to the application for a Report of Building Records. Building Safety's counter is reachable at building.safety@culvercity.org and (310) 253-5800.

What our Culver City pages add

Our Culver City page counts the city's permits by kind of work, October 2024 to September 2026:

49% of the 5,672 permits were for homes. By ZIP code, 90230 had 2,720 permits, 90232 had 2,367 and 90066 had 578 in that window (ZIP code pages). The permit statistics page has counts by year and month, and browse permits lists the rows. To check a licence, see how to check a contractor's license in California.

What this does not tell you

The city's file names no contractor and carries no job value or final date, so we show no firm lists, no costs and no time to final. It also has no issue date: permits are dated by the day the record was opened, which for plan-checked work can be weeks or months earlier.