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Fremont's business tax for contractors

Fremont's Revenue Division collects a business tax from every business operating in the city, home-based, commercial or based elsewhere, and contractors are named on its list. Licensed contractors have their own initial registration rate, set higher than the one for other businesses, plus a state-mandated fee. A construction contractor located outside Fremont can pay per quarter or per year, and also owes ten cents for each thousand dollars of gross receipts on all Fremont construction activity. A business that qualifies for an exemption still has to register. Renewal forms arrive by mail before the certificate expires and can be paid online through the link in the notice; annual renewals are due by the last business day of February.

City of Fremont, Revenue Division (opens in a new tab)

Permits

Fremont permits: express records, front-yard trees, hill review

Express permits that issue themselves
Permits are applied for in Citizen Access, the city's online portal, and an express permit is issued automatically once submitted and paid by card. Express types cover a reroof of more than 100 square feet; residential electrical work from a fixture or receptacle up to a main panel or EV charger; furnace and AC swaps in the same location; like-for-like kitchen and bath remodels that move no walls; water heater and gas or water line replacement in place; and window replacement that leaves the framing alone. Every permit still needs an inspection, and sewer work more than two feet from the house goes to Union Sanitary District.
City of Fremont, Planning & Building Permits (opens in a new tab)
Tree permits reach into the front yard
Fremont's Urban Forestry page says that in most cases a permit is needed to prune or remove a tree in a front yard, and always to remove, prune or plant a tree near a sidewalk or street, or to remove any tree on a lot over 10,000 square feet. Only an approved City tree contractor may apply for and work on street trees, and dropped leaves or fruit are not accepted as a reason to remove a tree.
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Hillside measures above Mission Boulevard
Fremont voters passed hillside measures in 1981 and 2002. The 1981 Measure A set design review for a band that includes existing neighborhoods below the toe of the hill but above Mission Boulevard, which takes in parts of Niles, Mission San Jose and Warm Springs. Above the toe, the 2002 Measure T raised the minimum lot size to 20 acres, and the Hill Area generally has no public sewer or water. Before quoting an addition or exterior change on a house above Mission Boulevard, ask planning staff whether that review applies.
City of Fremont General Plan, Hill Area (opens in a new tab)

The homes

Fremont's 80,545 homes in the Census estimates

The ACS 2019-2023 estimates count 80,545 housing units in Fremont, with a median year built of 1978. The 1970s are the biggest building decade at 24.7% of units, then the 1980s at 21.8% and the 1960s at 17.4%, so most houses are now 35 to 55 years old, an age when original windows, sliders, water lines and fences start to come due. Detached houses make up 56.8% of units and attached houses 13.6%, while 18.5% sit in buildings of 20 or more units. Owners occupy 60.2% of occupied homes. Electricity heats 23.0% of them, and utility gas most of the rest.

U.S. Census Bureau (opens in a new tab)

Mission Peak above Lake Elizabeth in Fremont. Photo: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Part by part

Fremont districts and the jobs they bring

Centerville, Cabrillo and Brookvale
The General Plan's Centerville area runs from Decoto Road south to about Mowry Avenue, between I-880 and the Alameda Creek and Quarry Lakes edge, and takes in the Cabrillo, Brookvale and Glenmoor neighborhoods. The plan says most of it went up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s as blocks of one-story ranch houses on winding streets and cul-de-sacs, old enough now for second rounds of door, fence and fixture work.
Mission San Jose
Much of Mission San Jose was built in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and the General Plan describes its homes as larger than elsewhere in Fremont, many with Mission or Mediterranean-inspired designs. Measure A covers land east of Mission Boulevard north of I-680 and east of I-680 from Mission Boulevard south, where the Hillside (HI) District sets grading, retaining wall and drainage standards and limits accessory structures to 12 feet.
Warm Springs
The General Plan says Warm Springs turned from farmland into low and medium density suburban neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970s, after I-680 was completed through it in 1963-64. The freeway still divides it: west of I-680, mixed-density housing; east of it, lower-density streets the plan compares to the hillside neighborhoods of Mission San Jose. Much of that housing is now more than 45 years old.

Getting around

A working day in Fremont: two freeways, one link, set hours

In Warm Springs, State Route 262 links I-880 to I-680, and the General Plan counts over 40,000 vehicles a day on Auto Mall Parkway, much of it moving between the two freeways. Chapter 18.160 limits construction within 500 feet of homes to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and holidays, with no Sunday work; owners working on their own single-family house get 7 to 8 on weekdays and 8 to 8 on weekends. Permitted projects show those hours on the plan cover sheet. Business tax can be paid at the cashier window inside the Permit Center.

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Questions

Working in Fremont: what pros ask

Do I owe Fremont business tax if my shop is in Hayward or San Jose?

Yes. A business based outside Fremont that does business in the city must complete a business tax application. Out-of-town construction contractors can pay per quarter or per year, and add ten cents for every thousand dollars of gross receipts from Fremont construction work. Registration is required even when a business qualifies for an exemption from the tax itself.

Can I get a Fremont water heater permit without waiting for plan review?

Yes, if the new heater goes in the same location. Residential Plumbing is an express record in Citizen Access that covers tank, tankless and heat-pump water heaters, and express permits issue automatically once the application is submitted and the fees are paid online by card. The job still needs its building inspection before you close it out.

What hours can I run power tools on a Fremont job on a Saturday?

Within 500 feet of residences, lodging, nursing homes or hospitals, Saturday and holiday construction is limited to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday construction is not allowed. Weekday hours there are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Projects farther than 500 feet from those uses get longer hours, and work to prevent or repair an emergency condition is exempt.

Who permits a sewer lateral replacement in Fremont?

It depends on where the pipe runs. The city's express plumbing permit covers sewer lines and cleanouts only up to two feet from the building's footprint. Any other sewer line cleanout or replacement is permitted by the Union Sanitary District, so a full lateral job needs the district's permit, and relocating a sewer line or adding one is outside the express permit.

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What Fremont asks of a pro: business tax, express permits, hill rules

Get job leads in Fremont from today

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Fremont's business tax for contractors

Fremont permits: express records, front-yard trees, hill review

Express permits that issue themselves

Tree permits reach into the front yard

Hillside measures above Mission Boulevard

Fremont's 80,545 homes in the Census estimates

Fremont districts and the jobs they bring

Centerville, Cabrillo and Brookvale

Mission San Jose

Warm Springs

A working day in Fremont: two freeways, one link, set hours

From the first text to the homeowner's door

Confirm your mobile

A text for each new job

See it before you pay

Pay, then call the homeowner

Working in Fremont: what pros ask

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Where this page belongs

Where these facts come from

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