Willamette Valley
Linn County, Oregon Building Department and Permits
Linn 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
- 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 Until then Linn County design criteria remain unpublished.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
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 Linn County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.
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