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Elevate director tells Columbiana City Council building permits rose in 2025; department averages six-day plan review
Summary
Julie Needs of Elevate presented the Columbiana building-department 2025 report: 60 commercial and 185 residential permits (245 total), commercial project value rose to about $15.0 million, residential to about $13.3 million, and the department averaged a six-day plan-review turnaround (state allows 30 days).
Julie Needs, executive director of Elevate and the Saad Center, told the Columbiana City Council on May 5 that the city’s building department issued 60 commercial and 185 residential permits in 2025, for a total of 245 permits.
“We issued the Columbiana building department issued 60 commercial building permits and a 185 residential permits in 2025 for a total of 245 permits issued out of the building department,” Needs said, summarizing the year’s permit activity. She told…
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