Willamette Valley
Home inspection in Salem
Home inspection in Salem, Oregon: which agency issues permits, how far the records go back, wildfire code status and local conditions.
Wildfire code, section R327
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Permit application center portal
- canonical
- https://permits.cityofsalem.net/PACPortal/Search. The egov.cityofsalem.net host serves the identical app.
- account
- No
Contact
- phone
- 503-588-6256
- [email protected]
- address
- 440 Church St SE, 5th Floor, Salem. PO Box 14300, Salem OR 97309.
- address correction
- Third-party permit guides still publish the old 555 Liberty St SE Room 320 City Hall address. The city own current pages say 440 Church St SE.
- building official
- Al Rossi, 503-949-5895, [email protected]
Seismic retrofit permit
Seismic retrofit is a named permit type in the PAC Portal application list, alongside reroof and solar.Useful: it means retrofit work leaves a searchable permit record, so a buyer can check whether a house was actually bolted.
Housing stock
- vintage
- ACS 2020-2024 5-Year
- census fips
- 4164900
- median year built
- 1980
- total units
- 71124
- pre 1940 pct
- 8.8
- pre 1970 pct
- 32.2
Snow load region
- region
- Willamette Valley
- ground snow adjustment psf per ft
- 0.04
- means
- Ground snow load rises by this many psf for each foot of elevation gain within this region.