OSSIA advocacy results in faster permitting in the City of Portland in Q4

In the past several weeks OSSIA staff, working with OSSIA’s technical committee, has written letters to the City of Portland, Clackamas County and Washington County to ask for improved permitting streamlining to meet the December 31st deadline.

The City of Portland responded :

To further speed up solar permit pre-issuance turnaround times, Portland Permitting and Development (PP&D) is in the process of redirecting a Development Services staff member to solely focus on solar permits through the end of the year.

Given that federal tax credits for solar permits are tied to final inspection, PP&D is also increasing its internal coordination efforts with its Residential Inspections team. This will allow the City to fu

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