Remodeling Across Southern Arizona

Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana, Catalina Foothills, Sahuarita, Tanque Verde, Vail, Rita Ranch, Dove Mountain, Flowing Wells, Midvale Park and South Tucson, plus the surrounding Southern Arizona communities.

If you are just outside those, call anyway — we cover a wide radius around Tucson and the answer is frequently yes.

Because the Tucson metro is split across several separate permitting authorities with genuinely different requirements, fee schedules and review times.

City of Tucson PDSD covers city addresses. Pima County Development Services covers unincorporated areas including Catalina Foothills, Tanque Verde, Vail and most of Flowing Wells. Oro Valley, Marana and Sahuarita are incorporated towns with their own departments. And South Tucson is a separately incorporated city with its own building department. Two addresses a few streets apart can sit under different offices.

Not as a separate line item for anywhere in our normal service area. Where a project is genuinely remote — a large acreage property well outside the metro — mobilisation is discussed openly at the estimate stage rather than appearing later.

What does affect cost on outlying properties is site conditions: longer utility runs, difficult access, septic evaluation and caliche excavation. Those are priced from an actual site visit.

If you are in a master-planned community — most of Oro Valley, Marana, Dove Mountain, Rita Ranch, Sahuarita and parts of Midvale Park — then almost certainly yes for exterior work.

Architectural review is a separate approval from the building permit and typically adds four to twelve weeks. Larger-lot areas such as Tanque Verde, much of Flowing Wells and parts of Vail frequently have no HOA at all, which simplifies matters considerably. We submit to both authorities in parallel where both apply.

Arizona's HB 2720 requires municipalities above 75,000 people to permit ADUs by right, which covers the City of Tucson — including Rita Ranch and Midvale Park — up to 1,000 square feet with no owner-occupancy requirement and no additional parking.

Oro Valley, Marana, Sahuarita and South Tucson sit below that threshold, so their own zoning governs. Unincorporated Pima County areas — Catalina Foothills, Tanque Verde, Vail — follow county rules, which differ from the city's. And HOA covenants can restrict casitas anywhere, because state law binds municipalities rather than private covenants. See our casita and ADU page.