Willamette Valley
Linn County
Linn County, Oregon: which agency issues building permits, where the records live, and wildfire code adoption status.
Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-06
Verified fields
Permit authority
- authority
- Linn County Planning and Building Department
- scope
- FULL FOUR-TRADE DEPARTMENT, verified two independent ways.
- contract cities
- Brownsville, Halsey, Harrisburg, Lyons, Mill City, Millersburg, Scio, Tangent
- brownsville verbatim
- All responsibility for the enforcement of the Building Code rests with Linn County per the IGA.
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Linn County", building official Richard, phone 541-967-3816.
Contact
- address
- 315 SW 4th Avenue, First Floor, Albany OR 97321
- address caveat
- THREE addresses circulate: 315 SW 4th Ave is current, 300 SW 4th Ave appears on a county handout, and Room 114 Courthouse PO Box 100 on an older form.
- phone
- 541-967-3816
- building official
- Rick Goff
- email flag
- The live page uses a WEB FORM, not a published address. Publish the phone and the form.
Design criteria
- city of albany
- Frost depth 12 inches, SDC D, Exposure B, roof snow never less than 20 psf. Wind defers to OSSC Table 1609.3 with no numeric value.
Mass movement hazard
- hazard map basis
- Bulletin 84, Environmental Geology of Western Linn County, Oregon.
- find a geologist
- https://www.oregon.gov/osbge/Registration/Pages/Lookup.aspx, selecting an Engineering Geologist with an Active licence.
- department address corroborated
- 315 4th Avenue SW, 1st Floor, PO Box 100, Albany OR 97321. Phone 541-967-3816. Confirms the current address against the three that circulate.
Design requirements document
- status
- FETCHED BUT NOT READABLE.
- next step
- OCR. tesseract is not installed on this machine. Until then Linn County design criteria remain unpublished.
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Albany, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Linn County, Sweet Home
- jurisdiction count
- 5