Sedgwick County · Wichita metro

Metal buildings in Goddard.

We help Goddard customers plan garages, workshops, RV covers, storage buildings and agricultural structures on Wichita’s west side.

Where you’re building matters here. Goddard’s city limits and the unincorporated Sedgwick County ground around them are separate permitting environments, and which one you are in affects the engineering your project needs.

Permitting and engineering in Goddard

Inside Goddard city limits, the city is your permitting authority. Outside them you are in unincorporated Sedgwick County, which is handled by the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department.

That department is worth knowing about, because it administers permitting for the City of Wichita and unincorporated Sedgwick County together rather than as two separate offices. Commercial projects there begin with a plan review application, and plans must be prepared by a design professional licensed in Kansas. MABCD, 271 W 3rd St N, Wichita — (316) 660-1840.

On agricultural buildings outside the city, Kansas law limits what counties can require. A 2016 Kansas Attorney General opinion concluded that a county may not require buildings used solely for agricultural purposes to comply with county construction codes.

It is not automatic and it does not reach inside a city limit. Kansas statute does not define “agricultural purpose,” so the county decides whether a building qualifies. Floodplain regulations still apply in designated areas whatever the use. And a building that is part agricultural and part something else may not qualify.

The risk category for your building depends on its intended use and the code provisions your jurisdiction enforces, and the engineering documentation follows from that. West Sedgwick County also sits squarely in the wind, so we run the ASCE 7 hazard tool against your actual address and confirm which code edition applies before drawings are produced. More on the metro’s authorities on the Wichita page.