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Planning director: building permits steady year after zoning rewrite, long-term decline likely
Summary
Sumner County planning staff told commissioners that single-family building permit counts were roughly steady in the year surrounding last summer’s zoning changes but forecast a likely decline in permit-driven revenue as existing entitlements build out.
Planning Director told the Sumner County Regional Planning Commission that single-family permit counts were roughly level in the year before and the year after the county adopted new RP preservation zoning districts, but that permit-driven revenue is likely to fall as existing entitlements finish building out.
The planning director said the office tracked 351 single-family building permits in the 12 months before the code changes and that counts from Aug. 1, 2023, through the present are “about the same, a little, maybe a…
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