Corrections Policy

Last updated: May 9, 2026

Permit fee schedules change. PermitPrice corrects verified errors quickly and discloses meaningful changes in the public changelog.

How to report an error

Three ways, in order of convenience:

1. Use the contact form — structured fields, opens your email client when you click the button.
2. Send a prefilled correction email — same fields as the form, no JavaScript required.
3. Email contact@permitprice.com directly with the fields below.

However you send it, please include:

• Page URL on PermitPrice (e.g. /virginia/fairfax-county/).
• Jurisdiction and project type the correction applies to.
• Figure shown on PermitPrice and the figure you believe is correct.
• Official source URL or PDF that supports the correction (preferred), or the document title and effective date.
• Effective date on the official source.
• Building-department contact if you have a name or department, so we can verify.

What we will fix quickly

• Fee figures that do not match the currently published official schedule.
• Surcharge percentages, technology fees, or state levies that are out of date.
• Broken or expired source links.
• Worked-example arithmetic that does not reconcile with the formula.
• Misattributed or stale "last verified" dates.

What we evaluate carefully

• Disagreements about valuation method or scope categorization. We will revise the page to disclose the ambiguity rather than pick a single answer.
• Reports based on a permit-clerk quote without a citation. We need a public source to publish a change.

How corrections are disclosed

Material corrections (a changed dollar amount, a changed formula, a withdrawn page) are logged with date and short description on the public changelog. Typo and link fixes are not logged.

Speed

Verified corrections with a citation are usually applied within a few business days. Bulk corrections (a jurisdiction publishing a new annual schedule) are queued and worked through in priority order.

What we will not do

• Quietly change a number without updating the last-verified date.
• Remove a page to hide a past error - we will publish the correction.
• Accept a correction request that asks us to publish numbers without a public citation.