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Lennox staff reports higher permit activity this year; council asks for year-to-date comparison
Summary
City staff reported 141 permits year-to-date and highlighted recent residential and commercial projects; a council member requested a year-to-date comparison to last year for fuller context.
Unidentified Speaker 2, identified in the transcript as city staff, told the meeting the city had recorded "141 permits since the New Year's" as of the preceding Monday and cited several recent projects, including roughly a dozen new homes in the countryside, one project on South Main and six ongoing commercial projects.
He provided month-to-month permit-value comparisons, saying August 2023 permit values were "roughly 1,500,000.0 at 19 permits" and that August 2024 included about $5,000,000 in commercial permits (for two permits) plus approximately three quarters of a million for residential permits, with 18 residential permits recorded for August 2024.
Unidentified Speaker 4 asked whether the figures represented year-to-date totals or single-month comparisons; Speaker 2 said he compares August 2023 to August 2024 and typically runs the data one month behind so September totals are not yet complete. Speaker 4 asked staff to provide a year-to-date (January—August) comparison to the prior year for easier trend analysis.
The exchange ended with the chair moving on to other agenda items; no formal policy change or budget action was taken at the meeting.
Ending: Staff indicated they maintain permit tallies month-by-month and will prepare additional year-to-date comparisons on request; no further schedule or decision was announced at this meeting.
