Remodeling in Deer Valley: HOA Approval and Park City Permits

Deer Valley is not one HOA. Empire Pass, Deer Crest and many neighborhood and condo associations each run their own review. Most of Deer Valley also sits inside Park City, which has its own permit and design rules.

This guide is for owners remodeling or adding on to an existing home or condo. If you are building new, our Deer Valley design codes post covers that.

Who reviews your remodel

Start with your own HOA. Each Deer Valley community writes its own rules, and they mostly focus on exterior changes. Condo associations also review work that touches common walls, floors or the building exterior.

Park City reviews the work separately. Its building department checks code, and its planning department reviews exterior design in the Residential Development zone. The city leaves HOA rules to the HOA, so an approved permit does not mean your HOA is satisfied, and the reverse is true too.

The steps, in order

1. 1.
   Get your HOA's rules

   Ask the HOA or its manager for the current design guidelines, CC&Rs and construction rules. Ask what needs review, how long it takes and what deposit applies.

2. 2.
   HOA review

   Submit plans for any exterior or common-area work. For a condo, include anything that touches shared walls, floors or systems.

3. 3.
   Park City design review, if exterior

   Exterior changes in the Residential Development zone go through the city's architectural review before the permit.

4. 4.
   Building permit

   Apply through Park City's online portal. Building, fire, code compliance, engineering and planning each review the plans, then you pay the fees.

5. 5.
   HOA notification

   For exterior work in a registered HOA, file the city's HOA notification. It can come after the permit but must be in before the limits of disturbance inspection.

6. 6.
   Mitigation plan and start of work

   Submit the construction mitigation plan, pass the limits of disturbance inspection and hold the pre-construction meeting. Then work can start.

Rules that surprise remodelers

• Lights come up to code. Altering an existing house means its exterior lights must meet Park City's rules now: fully shielded, 3000K or warmer, and no uplighting.
• Snow can't land on your neighbor. A roof that sheds onto a neighbor's property needs a recorded snow shed agreement or engineered snow retention.
• Building pads are real lines. Many Deer Valley lots have a platted building pad. An addition outside it needed a plat amendment in at least one recent case.
• Condo common area takes a vote. Turning common area into a private deck required a two-thirds owner vote at one Deer Valley condo complex.
• Height is measured from existing grade. In the Residential Development zone the limit is 28 feet, or 33 feet with a roof pitched 4:12 or steeper.
• Some materials are off the table. Park City's design rules ban vinyl and aluminum siding, synthetic stone and reflective metal roofs.
• Landscaping gets a plan. Changing the footprint, or more than half the landscaping, requires a landscape plan. HOAs cannot ban water-wise landscaping.
• Additions need a sewer receipt from the Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District before the permit.

Construction rules in Park City

• Work hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Extensions need a written request two business days ahead.
• No work on restricted dates, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Sundance.
• An approved parking plan. Street parking only in legal spaces.
• Staging and dumpsters stay inside the limits of disturbance fence. Anything in the street needs a city permit.
• Deliveries need two flaggers, and the site needs a construction sign.
• Neighbors must be told ahead of disruptive work.
• Owners cannot pull an owner-builder permit for work in a condo or PUD.

How we handle it

We have priced and planned remodels in Deer Valley neighborhoods. We line up the HOA review, the city's design review and the permit so they run in the right order, and we write the mitigation plan and run the site to Park City's rules.

For a condo, we get the association's written approval and the condo letter before demolition, and we schedule noisy work around the building's rules and your neighbors.

Common questions

Where these rules come from

We checked these sources in October 2026. HOA rules change and many are only shared with owners, so confirm the current rules with your HOA before you plan. Height and material rules come from a published transcription of Park City's Land Management Code.

• Park City: building permits
• Park City: HOA information for building permits
• Park City Construction Mitigation Plan template
• Park City lighting ordinance (2021)
• Park City Snow Shed Guide (2022)
• Park City landscaping ordinance (2023)
• Bald Eagle building pad plat amendment (2023)
• Stag Lodge common area staff report (2016)
• Utah Division of Real Estate: condo association plan review
• Park City staff report on Empire Pass Design Review Board approval (2021)
• Deer Crest community documents
• Park City Land Management Code, Residential Development zone (transcription)