Benton County, Oregon Building Department and Permits

Benton County, Oregon building department and permit records in one place. See the issuing agency, the search portal, and what the record can miss.

Wildfire code, section R327

No adoption record found checked 2026-08-05

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Permit authority

authority: Benton County Community Development, Building Division
excluded verbatim: All construction in areas within the county boundary, EXCEPT within the city limits of Corvallis, Philomath and Albany.
county served: unincorporated Benton, Adair Village, whose city stopped accepting applications 2014-12-01, Monroe, Alsea, Blodgett, Wren and similar
operational change: As of 2025-01-01 Benton moved to online plan review via state Accela and 24/7 electronic inspection requests, driven by HB 2415.
lbdd corroboration: State directory lists "Benton County", building official Jason Johannesen, phone 541-766-6819.

Contact

address: 4500 SW Research Way, Kalapuya Building 2nd floor, Corvallis OR 97333-1139
address correction: The BCD directory lists a STALE address, 360 SW Avery Ave. Use 4500 SW Research Way.
phone: 541-766-6819; permit appointments 541-766-6297; septic 541-766-6841; records 541-766-6831
email: [email protected]
building official: Jason Johannesen
hours: Public hours Mon-Fri 09:00-16:00

The BCD directory lists a STALE address, 360 SW Avery Ave. Use 4500 SW Research Way.

Permit search

system: THE STATE PORTAL EXCLUSIVELY. Benton has no separate county system.
account: No
account verbatim: Anyone can use Oregon ePermitting system to search for permits.
address searchable: Yes
DATE RANGE: BACK TO 2001, stated on the county electronic-permitting page. Pre-2001 by records request.
online submittal limit: Restricted to LICENSED CONTRACTORS, only where the property is not in a floodplain and no plan review is required.

Design criteria

all values: UNDETERMINED from any Benton or Corvallis source.
trap: One promising search hit turned out to be City of Roseville, CALIFORNIA. Discarded. Second time that document has surfaced in this research.
dead link: https://cd.bentoncountyor.gov/building-division/ returns 404 despite being in the Google index.

Lbdd directory

This county runs its own building department, listed under its own name with no BCD suffix.

The record is half the picture

A permit search shows what was filed, not what was built. The gap between the two is what a general home inspection exists to find.

Anyone inspecting in Benton County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.

Cities in this county with a filed record

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