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County building official reports 2025 permit totals, online permit system expansion
Summary
Mason County building official reported 1,411 residential BLD permits in 2025, 173 permits year‑to‑date in 2026, a 23‑day average turnaround and broad SmartGov rollout to streamline permitting across departments.
Josh Luck, Mason County building official (speaker 6), gave a data summary of the county’s permitting work and described a multi‑department rollout of the SmartGov online permitting platform.
"So last year, we ended the 2025 year for BLD permits...the overall number for those were 1,411," Josh Luck said, adding commercial projects totaled 124 in 2025 and year‑to‑date permit totals through early March 2026 were 173, including 24 manufactured home permits.
Luck said current permit turnaround averages 23 days and the county performs roughly 25 inspections per day depending on staffing. He listed active and planned projects the county is tracking, including a 30,000‑square‑foot fabrication building at the port replacing a building lost in a fire, Hood Canal School’s remodel and transportation building, a 12,000‑square‑foot Mason County garbage facility, numerous PUDs with utilities work, and design work on the Russell Wood sewer replacement.
On process improvements, Luck described SmartGov work led by an internal project lead, with forms and workflows being updated so that environmental health, public works and the assessor’s office can use a unified system rather than disparate help tickets. He said the county is working with vendor Granicus to centralize change requests and plans to add commercial submittal capability and how‑to videos for applicants.
Commissioners asked staff to flag large projects and keep the board informed of major permit applications or enforcement matters so commissioners can be proactive in community communications.
