Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Whitman County Building Inspector Dan Gladwill presented fourth-quarter and year-end 2017 building reports Monday to county commissioners.
For the year, total valuations were $8,479,557 on 169 building permits issued with 340 total inspections and 77 total final inspections. Total permit and plan review fees were $107,599.
The 2016 totals were $72,316 in total fees, $6,065,677 in total valuations and 169 permits issued.
Of the 2017 year-end valuation ($8,479,557 million), Gladwill noted that 15 homes were built but the county’s total valuation still had not come up. The 31 commercial permits compared to 18 in 2016 and 52 and 55 in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
“It might be a lack of real commercial jobs,” he said, citing examples of large building projects in recent years with the Port of Whitman, the wind farm at Naff Ridge and more.
“It was not a smokin’ hot year for building permits, but it was better than the year before,” said Mark Storey, Public Works director.
In fourth-quarter numbers, the county issued 41 building permits on 102 inspections and $6,056,677 in total valuations. Total fees were $16,326 – an increase of $4,077.
“Pretty medium average,” Gladwill said of the fourth quarter.
Garth Meyer is a former Whitman County Gazette reporter.
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