What We Do After You Apply for Permits or Reviews
- A Permit Technician enters your project into a permit tracking system.
- Your project proposal gets distributed to three different county departments for review.
- Planners in all three departments make sure the proposal meets all applicable codes and ordinances.
- Planners from these departments may contact you asking for additional information, or to schedule an on-property review and inspection.
- Reviews are in office and on-property.
- Reviews are for zoning, environmental (critical areas, gophers, shorelines, wetland, hazard areas), septic, well, building, building site, right-of-way access (drawings driveway/s entering the road), erosion control, stormwater drainage, etc.
- It's common for most application packets to need some revisions, and additional information, so expect a call or email.
- If your project property is in a regulated environmental area, staff may ask you to hire environmental experts to prepare detailed reports about where you can build on the property.
- Keep your application moving through the process: give us accurate contact info & respond quickly if we ask for information (or make sure your contractors do).
- When county review is complete, the county will notify you.
- You can check the status of your application review anytime with Permit Tracker.