Development Services Permit Activity and Wildfire Rebuilding

At a glance

What: monthly permit activity, wildfire rebuilding assistance and the schedule for a new permit system.
Where it stands: Informational update on October 15; no vote was recorded.
Next: The permit system change was pushed to February 2 to avoid colliding with year-end work.

Built from the Whisper speech-to-text transcript of the October 15 Urban Experience Committee meeting; names and numbers may be misheard.
Staff said the City passed 1,000 permitted housing units for the year early, with 246 new units permitted in September and about 68 million dollars of projects, and that duplexes through fourplexes were increasing; thirty multifamily permits in review would add about 552 units.
For wildfire rebuilding, staff reported over 200 demolition permits opened, with a smaller number approved and finaled, and 19 housing permits opened; the library help desk was being scaled back to evening and weekend sessions until after the holidays.
Staff said the new permit system launch was moved to February 2 so accounting could finish year-end work, and noted that boiler operating permits are no longer issued.

Staff said the City passed 1,000 permitted housing units for the year early, with 246 new units permitted in September and about 68 million dollars of projects, and that duplexes through fourplexes were increasing; thirty multifamily permits in review would add about 552 units.