Electrical permit history — 165 S Linda Av
165 S Linda Av, Tucson — built 2024, with 39 permits on record. Review electrical, HVAC and remodel history with links to official records.
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165 S Linda Av
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Built 2024 — modern 200 A era · 39 permits on record; no permitted panel/service or HVAC work among them
Permanent link: Electrical permit history for 165 S Linda Av (aztucsonelectricalsolutions.com/property/11620637a/165-s-linda-av-tucson-az-85745) · Public records last checked 2026-08-22
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- Electrical service & panelNot in this windowNothing in the permit records we read for this parcel that names this system. Worth knowing: a 2023 fire automatic extinguishing system permit is on file (and 2 more like it) — work like this is often folded into a larger permit without being named, so open that record and check its scope before concluding anything. No permitted service work shows in the record we read — typical for a newer home, whose service was sized to modern code at construction. Nothing here has needed a service permit since.
- Heating & coolingNot in this windowNothing in the permit records we read for this parcel that names this system. Worth knowing: a 2023 fire automatic extinguishing system permit is on file (and 2 more like it) — work like this is often folded into a larger permit without being named, so open that record and check its scope before concluding anything. Cooling equipment works harder in Tucson than almost anywhere, so 12 to 15 years is a realistic service life rather than the 15 to 20 the industry quotes.
- Water heaterNot in this windowNothing in the permit records we read for this parcel that names this system. Water heaters are frequently swapped without a permit, so this line is especially weak evidence either way.
- RoofNot in this windowNothing in the permit records we read for this parcel that names this system.
- Plumbing work on recordOn recordLast permitted 2024 (2 years ago). Plumbing permits cover everything from a full re-pipe to a few feet of sewer repair, so this is a record that work happened rather than a statement about the whole system. Water Line Tap and Water line run
A found permit means a lot. A missing one means less. We read the City of Tucson’s own permit file, not a recent extract of it — back to about 2006, and into the 1990s on properties with that much history. Microfiche before then was never fully digitized. Every record links to the city’s official file. A blank line does not say nothing was done: work gets done without permits all the time. The only way to know what is actually installed is to look at it.
What that usually means electrically
- Era-based check
Modern service and panel. Most upgrades here are about available breaker spaces and circuit capacity rather than the service itself. The permit record does not confirm this; an on-site inspection is required.
What to check at the panel
Everything above is read off public records. These are the things only someone standing at the panel can settle, and they take about a minute.
- The number stamped on the main breaker handle — 100, 125, 150, 175 or 200. That is the service rating, and no record on this page confirms it.
- The busbar rating printed on the panel label. It is a different number from the main breaker, and it is the one that decides how much solar a panel can take under the 120% rule.
- The manufacturer and catalog number on the label inside the door.
- How many full-size spaces are left, how many positions the label permits a tandem breaker in, and the tandem limit the label states. A full panel is a different job from a full service.
- The conductor material at the main lugs, and whether the terminations look clean and tight.
- Whether there is a separate meter-main outside as well as the panel indoors — that changes where a disconnect and any new feeder would land.
- Whether the water heater, dryer and range are gas or electric. No public record carries fuel type, and it is the single biggest variable in a load calculation — it can move the calculated load on the same house by more than 40 A.
With those in hand you can run the numbers yourself. The load calculator does the NEC 220.82 optional-method calculation — the same method a permit application uses — and shows its work.
What these jobs cost here
No floor area on record, so the cooling side cannot be priced from the record alone.
Electrical panel or service upgrade
$3,300
Most jobs like this land between $2,900 and $4,100.
The existing underground lateral is adequate for the new service and stays. That is the ordinary case, and it makes an underground job cheaper than an overhead one — the opposite of what most people expect, because there is no mast, riser or weatherhead. The bottom of this range is a clean, simple job: single storey, framed wall, the panel staying where it is, a short service run, and nothing unexpected once the cover comes off. That job is real and we do book it — but it is the best case, not the average, and the figure above it is what most houses actually come to.
Priced from built 2024 (modern 200 A era), City of Tucson permit fee and the 2023 NEC it has adopted, Tucson Electric Power as the serving utility and a finalled permit describing an underground service, so that is what is priced rather than assumed.
What would move this price
- Only if the panel has to move — a clothes closet, a bathroom, over a stairway, or behind a door +$3,900
If every one of those turned out to apply, this becomes about $8,000. That is the worst realistic case, not a prediction — none of them is a claim about your house.
- If your service is underground and the lateral is big enough to keep, you are already on the cheaper path. Ask the contractor to confirm the conduit size before you assume it: a 100 A original in 1¼″ conduit will not take 200 A, and that single fact swings the job by thousands.
- A service upgrade fixes capacity and the safety of the service equipment. It does not fix branch wiring. If the reason you are here is flickering lights, warm outlets or cloth-jacketed wiring, an upgrade is a down payment on a much bigger problem, and it is worth knowing that before you spend in the wrong order. (The report reserves the era-specific wiring checks for the years they actually apply to — read those above.)
- You may not need the upgrade at all. NEC 220.87 lets an existing dwelling be sized from twelve months of actual metered demand rather than a calculated load, and real houses draw far less than the calculation predicts. Ask your utility for a year of interval data and have it run that way first. Two cautions so this does not backfire: the demand tile in a TEP online account shows on-peak demand only, which is not the annual maximum the code asks for — you want the formal usage-data release — and 220.87 proves CAPACITY and nothing else. It does not create empty breaker spaces, and it does not make an obsolete panel, or one whose breakers have a documented failure history, safe. Those are separate questions with separate answers — and where the era makes a brand worth checking, the report above says so on its own.
- Whether the service is already 200 A. Nothing in the public record says so, and the number is stamped on the main breaker handle.
- Whether the panel can stay where it is. A panel in a closet, over stairs or behind a door has to move, and that alone adds $1,500 to $5,000.
- The floor area is not on the assessor record for this parcel, so there is no honest basis for a tonnage — and without a tonnage there is no price.
This is an estimate, not a quote. It is built from this property’s public record and current City of Tucson market rates — nobody has seen your panel, your duct or your roof. A real price comes from a site visit, and the things that move it most are the ones listed above that no record carries.
Change the assumptions — the panel’s location, the duct, the tonnage, whether the service is overhead or underground — and watch the number move. That is the point of it.
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Flood and drainage
The federal flood map and the local one are not the same map, and they do not always agree. FEMA’s is the insurance map; the City of Tucson regulates against its own, and that is the one a permit here is judged against.
- FEMA: we did not read the federal flood map for this snapshot, so no zone is shown here. That is a gap in this page, not a statement about the property. Check FEMA’s flood map for this address ↗
- Local floodplain (the City of Tucson): local floodplain mapping is not reproduced here. A property can sit outside FEMA’s zone and still be inside a locally regulated floodplain, floodway, sheet-flooding area or erosion hazard setback, so check the authority’s own map before planning work. Pima County RFCD flood hazard map for parcel 11620637A ↗ · the City of Tucson ↗
The record behind this read
- Parcel
- 11620637A
- Year constructed
- 2024 (assessor record)
- Permitting authority
- Tucson
- Zoning
- C-2
- Living area
- 602,880 sq ft
- Estimated electrical service era
- approximately 200 A (estimated from the year built, 2024 — not a measurement; verify on site)
The living area above comes from the Pima County Assessor’s record, as we read it on 28 Jan 2026. Each other row names its own source.
The most recent permitted work on this parcel was in 2026. That says the parcel was worked on under permit, not what the work covered — a roof, a pool or a changeout tells you nothing about the electrical service. Work done without a permit leaves no trace here at all.
What this means for work here
Informational public-record summary — not engineering, inspection, valuation or purchasing advice, and not the official record.
The most recent permitted work on this parcel was in 2026. That says the parcel was worked on under permit, not what the work covered — a roof, a pool or a changeout tells you nothing about the electrical service. Work done without a permit leaves no trace here at all.
What that reading rests on. The issuing offices hold 39 building permits for this parcel dated between 2015 and 2026. By category the work is right-of-way (row) permit - general (6), right-of-way (row) permit - utility (5), special events fire permit - organizer (4) and fire alarm system (2). 16 of them carry a final inspection; the other 23 were issued, expired or are still open, which is not the same as work completed. There are 2 code-enforcement cases recorded against the parcel, all of them closed. We do not reproduce complaint text — it routinely names people with no connection to the property.
Go straight to the records
Each link opens the issuing office’s own file for that record — dates, scope, status and inspections are theirs to publish, and they are all on the other side of these links.
Sign (1): 2026 TS-PRM-1025-00414
City permit record (22): 2026 TP-MOD-0426-000046 · 2026 TF-FCP-0426-00232 · 2026 TS-MSP0126-00002 · 2025 TF-FCP-1224-01056 · 2024 TF-FCP-0823-01040 · 2023 TF-FCP-1123-01315 · 2023 TC-BCA-1123-00026 · 2023 TC-COM-1023-02351 · 2023 TE-BAS-0923-00179 · 2023 TC-UTL-0123-00039 · 2022 TF-FOP-1122-00006 · 2022 S22-062 · 2022 T22SA00245 · 2021 T21PRE0272 · 2021 T21SA00546 · 2020 T19FO00772 · 2020 T20FO00017 · 2019 T19FO00813 · 2018 T18FO00937 · 2017 T17FO00922 · 2016 T16FO00091 · 2015 T15TUP0002
Commercial building (3): 2025 TC-COM-0425-00699 · 2023 TC-COM-0223-00676 · 2023 T21CM09453
Code enforcement cases (2): 2024 CE-VIO0124-00414 · 2023 CE-VIO1023-06262
Development package (1): 2022 DP21-0157
Read the records yourself. We republish selected facts and record numbers so you can find the file; the issuing agency’s record controls. The files are held by City of Tucson permit record (PRO) ↗ — search the parcel number 11620637A. Permit and parcel information courtesy of the City of Tucson and Pima County; their files are the official record and control over anything summarized here.
This is an inference from public records — the year a structure was built, how it is classified, and what has been permitted. It is not an inspection, and nothing here confirms what is actually installed at this address. The only way to know is to look in the panel. See an error in this public-record report? Report a correction · About this data.
Utility and upgrade pathElectric service here is Tucson Electric Power (TEP). A service or panel upgrade needs a TEP meter release and has to meet TEP’s service requirements — meter height and location, clearances, and the point of attachment. See TEP new-service requirements and the TEP standards notes.
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What the flood note is not. The flood zone shown is FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer — the federal insurance map. Local floodplain mapping is not reproduced here; use the authority’s own map, linked above. Nothing here is a floodplain determination, an elevation certificate, or a substitute for one. A parcel can straddle a boundary, and a Letter of Map Amendment can remove a structure the map still covers. For a determination, ask the floodplain administrator for the jurisdiction named above; for a design that has to satisfy one, that is work we do.
How this property compares nearby
Properties on S LINDA AV hold 96 City permits on record, 86 of them since 2022.
Computed from the same public records as this report — counts and years, not an appraisal.
Complete permit record (41 entries)
Every permit and case we hold for this parcel, newest first. Each number links to the official file.
| Year | Number | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TS-PRM-1025-00414 | Permanent Sign Permit | Issued |
| 2026 | TP-MOD-0426-000046 | Zoning Modifications | In Review |
| 2026 | TF-FCP-0426-00232 | Fire Alarm System Permit | Needs Resubmittal |
| 2026 | record | ROW Permit - Development/Building | Needs Resubmittal |
| 2026 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - Utility | Complete |
| 2026 | TS-MSP0126-00002 | Master Sign Program | In Review |
| 2025 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Complete |
| 2025 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - Utility | Inspections |
| 2025 | TF-FCP-1224-01056 | Fire Alarm System Permit | Expired |
| 2025 | TC-COM-0425-00699 | Commercial Pool/Spa Permit | Inspections |
| 2024 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - Utility | Inspections |
| 2024 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - Utility | Needs Resubmittal |
| 2024 | TF-FCP-0823-01040 | Fire Automatic Extinguishing System Permit | Issued |
| 2024 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - Utility | Complete |
| 2024 | CE-VIO0124-00414 | Code enforcement case | Closed - Resolved |
| 2023 | TF-FCP-1123-01315 | Fire Automatic Extinguishing System Permit | Complete |
| 2023 | TC-BCA-1123-00026 | Building Code Appeal | Approved |
| 2023 | CE-VIO1023-06262 | Work without permit | Closed - Resolved |
| 2023 | TC-COM-1023-02351 | Commercial Trade Permit | Expired |
| 2023 | TE-BAS-0923-00179 | Commercial Water Harvesting Ordinance | In Review |
| 2023 | TC-COM-0223-00676 | Commercial Trade Permit | Issued |
| 2023 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Complete |
| 2023 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Complete |
| 2023 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Complete |
| 2023 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Issued |
| 2023 | record | Right-of-Way (ROW) Permit - General | Withdrawn |
| 2023 | T21CM09453 | Commercial New Building Permit | Issued |
| 2023 | TC-UTL-0123-00039 | Site Utility | Submitted |
| 2022 | TF-FOP-1122-00006 | Special Events Fire Permit - Organizer | Complete |
| 2022 | DP21-0157 | Development Package | Issued |
| 2022 | S22-062 | Land Split/Lot Split | Complete |
| 2022 | T22SA00245 | Zoning Compliance | Complete |
| 2021 | T21PRE0272 | Pre-Application Conference | Canceled |
| 2021 | T21SA00546 | Infill Incentive District (IID) | Approved |
| 2020 | T19FO00772 | Special Events Fire Permit - Organizer | Complete |
| 2020 | T20FO00017 | Special Events Fire Permit - Vendor | Complete |
| 2019 | T19FO00813 | Special Events Fire Permit - Organizer | Complete |
| 2018 | T18FO00937 | Special Events Fire Permit - Organizer | Complete |
| 2017 | T17FO00922 | General Operational Fire Permit | Complete |
| 2016 | T16FO00091 | General Operational Fire Permit | Complete |
| 2015 | T15TUP0002 | Temporary Use Permit | Withdrawn |
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How this report was built
This is a reading of public records for parcel 11620637A — 39 City permits on file from 2015 to 2026 and 2 code enforcement cases — assembled from the Pima County parcel file and the City of Tucson’s published permit layers together with the City’s own migrated permit archive, whose records reach back to the mid-1990s. Some records were still not read for this snapshot: City permit records before the mid-1990s were never fully digitized. The construction year, living area on this page come from our saved copy of the Assessor’s own published data file (dated 2026-01-28). The sewer connection file and the flood map were not read for this snapshot. Absence of a permit here is NOT evidence work was never permitted — it may predate the digitized record or sit in a system this snapshot did not read. Public records snapshot taken 2026-08-22.
The verdicts are inferences from what was permitted and when, and from the era the building went up; they are not an inspection, and nothing here confirms what is installed. Written and maintained by Arizona Electrical Solutions, LLC, a licensed Tucson contractor (ROC 276948 CR-11 electrical, ROC 326401 CR-39 HVAC, ROC 329360 KB-1, ROC 312437 KA).
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