Victorville, CA Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

110 governs inspections for grading and earthwork permits. All permitted grading work is subject to inspection by authorized City employees, and the Building Official can require continuous inspection and supervision by a registered civil engineer and other consultants as a permit condition; a final inspection is required before the City issues a grading completion certificate. The permittee must notify the Building Official twenty-four hours ahead of each of nine defined inspection points: Initial Inspection (before any brushing or grading), Toe Inspection (ground exposed, ready for fill), Sub-drain Inspection, Excavation Inspection (before the cut reaches ten vertical feet), Fill Inspection (before fill reaches ten vertical feet), Drainage Device Inspection (forms and reinforcement in place, no concrete yet), Rough Grading, Rough Grading Certification, and Final Certification.

At the Rough Grading Certification stage, the engineer of record must certify in writing, before any foundation work is approved, that pad location, elevation, and compaction meet the approved plans and geotechnical studies. Final Certification requires drainage structures, trench backfill compaction, and slope planting/stabilization to be complete, with the engineer of record's written certification and all required reports submitted. If work that must be inspected is covered before inspection, the Building Official can require it exposed again for examination at the permittee's expense (subsection (b)). The permittee must also give twenty-four hours' notice before resuming grading that was interrupted (subsection (c)(11)).