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Clackamas County, Oregon Building Department and Permits
Clackamas 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 2026-08-06
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Permit authority
- authority
- Clackamas County Building Codes Division, Department of Transportation and Development
- staffing
- 48 FTE plus 1 part-time regular and 1 part-time limited-term; 35 staff certified for inspection or plan review.
- unincorporated
- Issues ALL permits in unincorporated Clackamas County.
- iga cities
- Gladstone, Canby, Molalla, Barlow, Rivergrove, Johnson City
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Clackamas County", building official Matt Rozzell, phone 503-742-4240.
Contact
- address
- 150 Beavercreek Road, Oregon City OR 97045
- phone
- 503-742-4240
- inspection ivr
- 503-742-4720, 24/7
- customer info
- 503-742-4400
- fax
- 503-742-4741
- [email protected]
Electrical monopoly
- practical takeaway
- In Clackamas County, if you want the ELECTRICAL permit history on a house, anywhere, in any city, you go to the COUNTY, not the city.
Design criteria
- seismic
- Design Category D
- frost
- 12 inches below 2,500 ft; 18 inches from 2,500 to 4,000 ft; 24 inches above 4,000 ft
- soil bearing psf
- 1500
- soil class
- ML, inorganic silts and clayey silts. Coefficient of friction 0.25.
- lateral soil loads
- Active 45 psf per ft; at-rest 100 psf per ft
- not published
- site class, weathering, termite, ice barrier, flood hazard, air freezing index, mean annual temperature
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Canby, Clackamas County, Estacada, Happy Valley, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Molalla, Oregon City, Portland, Sandy, Tualatin, West Linn, Wilsonville
- jurisdiction count
- 13
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 Clackamas County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.
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