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Greenville City building department reports surge in permits, shortens plan-review timelines
Summary
Greenville City building officials told council the department is handling more permit applications year-to-date, has cut standard plan-review timelines for residential and commercial projects, and has processed hundreds of storm‑damage repairs after Hurricane Helene with fees waived for repair‑only work.
Buddy, Director of Building and Codes and Chief Building Official for Greenville City, told the City Council at a work session that the building department is handling substantially more activity year-to-date and has shortened plan‑review windows to speed approvals.
“We issued 204 applications so far for storm damage repairs,” Buddy said, and added that the department has performed 768 inspections related to those repairs and included that work in the year‑to‑date totals reported to council.
The update covered five categories of year‑to‑date activity. Buddy reported the department is about 400 permit applications ahead of where it was at the same point last year and ahead of the previous five years for application intake. Permit issuance is also higher, he said — roughly 800 permits ahead of last year — and inspections are up roughly 3,500 compared with the same period last year.
Buddy said permit fee totals are modestly ahead of the previous two years but remain below 2021 and 2022…
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