Clean Water Services (CWS) told development professionals that its typical site‑development and environmental reviews currently average 12–15 business days and that contractors and developers should prepare for stricter wet‑weather erosion‑control requirements and a renewed state 1200‑C construction stormwater permit.
Damon Reiche, planning and development services division manager with Clean Water Services, said “both our site development reviews and our environmental reviews for service provider letters are between 12 and 15 business days on average.” He noted more complex projects can take longer.
Reiche described a new wet‑weather corrosion control requirement that took effect Oct. 1 and said one practical implication is the need to cover open soil areas when a site is not being actively worked. “If you've got a large project with a lot of open ground and you don't have established vegetation on it, there's gotta be some sort of cover on it when you're not actively working it,” he said, listing straw, plastic sheeting or bonded fiber matrix as common options and noting hydroseeding may qualify where seed establishes quickly.
On state permitting, Reiche pointed attendees to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s draft 1200‑C construction stormwater permit, posted for public comment as part of a five‑year renewal cycle. He said the draft is short but includes changes to submittal requirements; public comments are due Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. and a virtual public hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23 at 9 a.m. Reiche advised developers to search “Oregon DEQ stormwater construction 1200‑C” for details.
Reiche also raised an administrative issue related to middle‑housing land divisions: the county’s permitting and billing systems sometimes double‑count units because a single lot may contain multiple units (for example, stacked flats), creating billing mismatches for system‑development charges. He asked developers to disclose anticipated unit counts early in the review process to avoid billing and SDC‑tracking issues.
No formal decisions were recorded; CWS provided timelines, compliance reminders and public‑comment dates for the DEQ permit process.