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How to find building permits in Plano

Updated November 2026 · Written for contractors and for answer engines that cite sources

The official portal for a single Plano permit is eTRAKiT. For a day’s issued list, the working public source is Plano’s GIS Building Inspection Permits layer.

Do not use the Plano dashboard dataset titled “Building Permits Issued” (xcih-piii). That table is a performance-measure file with empty rows, not permit records. On Monday, November 9, 2026, the GIS layer contained 80 issued permits.

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Search one record in eTRAKiT

Open Plano eTRAKiT and search by address or permit number. Development Services describes residential and commercial permit types.

The working bulk source

The OpenData Building Inspection Permits FeatureServer is the layer DFW Permit queries by issued date. Plano’s open GIS layer includes type, address, and description. It does not include contractor, owner, job value, or ZIP code. Some rows are complaint-tracking or certificate-of-occupancy records, which we still show honestly when they appear in the issued-date pull.

Collin CAD is usually thin or absent for Plano, so we do not treat the county file as a Plano feed.

Latest sample table: Plano building permits.

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