The new bureau will employ about 350 people, hopefully streamlining the “headache” of the former residential and commercial permitting process.
PORTLAND, Oregon — The city of Portland will soon be making changes to its residential and commercial permitting process. A new bureau, Portland Permitting and Development, is intended to make the process easier and more streamlined.
Preston Korst, director of governmental affairs with the Home Building Association of Greater Portland, said that the former system had been a headache for builders for years.
“It required builders to navigate a really complex web of seven bureaus just to get a single permit approved. It was cumbersome,
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