2020 and 2019 building permits for the first half of each year are posted at the bottom of this story -

Village of Bluffton building permits totaled over $1.5 million in first six months of 2020, according to the village office.

Thirty-six permits were issued totaling $1,520,054 in construction during that period. Residential accounted for $1,499.504 of that total with commercial/industrial coming in at $20,550.

The largest chuck of permits filed included three new homes, each over $300,000.  This year started at a dead pace, as only three permits were filed in the first quarter.

The six-month report for 2020 compares very close to the same period in 2019 when 32 permits were filed totaling  $1,569,749 in construction.

Building permits are required for the following:
• Construction or structural alternation of any building, including accessory building
• Change in use of an existing building or accessory building to a use of different classification
• Occupancy and use of vacant land
• Change in the use of land to a use of a different classification
• Any change in the use of a non-conforming use