Billings Township
Gladwin County, Michigan
Last verified September 17, 2026
Billings Township is a jurisdiction in Gladwin County, Michigan, with an online portal for searching and pulling active or historical building permits. Use the contact information below to reach the local building department, or the mailing address if the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Contact
- Phone
- (989) 429-9296
- justin@billingstownship.org
- Department Site
- Billings Township Planning and Zoning (opens in a new tab)
Permit Search
Certificate Holder Mailing Address
Billings Township1050 Estey Road
Beaverton, MI 48612-8181
Use this address when the jurisdiction needs to be listed as a certificate holder on a contractor's insurance documentation.
Additional Notes
Zoning inquiries go to Justin (justin@billingstownship.org, (989) 429-9296) per the township's own site; township hall main line (989) 435-8430, open Tue & Thu 9am-noon. Actual building-code (construction) permits for Billings Township appear to be administered by the Gladwin County Construction Codes Department (official site gladwincounty-mi.gov) -- a county-published PDF names Brian Johnson/Justin Schneider as building officials for Billings Township at (989) 615-6418, with the county Construction Codes office at County Annex Building, 555 W. Cedar Ave. Suite C, Gladwin, MI, main line (989) 426-5931; this source document was dated 2015 so contact names/numbers should be treated as potentially outdated. The BS&A Online link is the township's assessing/tax/property records portal; it is unconfirmed whether it also includes building permit records specifically. Township's own HTTPS certificate was expired at time of research (site reachable via HTTP).
What You Need Before Applying for a Permit
Most building departments ask for the same core package before they'll issue a permit: a completed application naming the property owner and contractor, the contractor's state license number and proof of insurance (general liability, and workers' comp if employees are on the job), a notice of commencement or equivalent recorded filing for larger jobs where the state requires one, and scaled plans or a site plan for anything beyond minor repairs. Roofing, fence, pool, and solar permits typically have their own simplified checklists — Billings Township's department (above) can confirm exactly what applies to your project.
Why this matters for insurance: permit history is one of the first things an underwriter or adjuster checks. Unpermitted work — a finished basement, an added bedroom, a rebuilt roof — can complicate a claim or even void coverage for that portion of the loss, and it routinely surfaces during a home inspection. Pulling the right permit up front, and keeping the closed-permit record on file, protects both the property's value and its insurability at resale.
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