36 building permits total $1.5 million for first half of 2020
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
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