No surprise: building way off in Commerce

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Wednesday, July 20. 2011
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Fiscal year-end figures from Commerce’s Department of Building Inspection confirm the obvious. Construction is down — way down.

In fact, according to figures released at the July 11 city council meeting, the value of new construction for which the city issued permits in the just-completed 2010-11 fiscal year was down almost 84 percent over the previous year.

The city issued permits for construction valued at $461,238 for the 12-month fiscal year ending June 30. That compares to $2.87 million in construction permitted in the 12 months from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010 – which was hardly a robust year. The city issued permits for $5.7 million in the 2008-09 fiscal year.

For the last month of the last fiscal year — June — the city issued permits for work valued at $62,700 — for one mobile home valued at $6,000 and for additions to five dwellings valued at a total of $56,700.

The housing market is completely stalled. During the past fiscal year, Commerce issued just one permit for the construction of a stick-built house, and it was to Habitat for Humanity.
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#1 Garnett Ward on 07/22/11 at 10:19 AM [Reply]
It is not suprising no building permits, $2500. for a water meter, that alone indicates
the city wants to stop the growth in Commerce.
#2 Anonymous on 07/29/11 at 07:54 AM [Reply]
I agree commerce does not want new business. You have to jump through to many hoops. They want you to put up to much money how can a small business man make a living. It all depends if you question the inspector and he likes the way you answer.
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