City Hall Closure Update - May 5, 2020

The City of Puyallup’s Permit Center shall remain closed to visitors throughout the Stay Home Stay Healthy order. During this closure, however, the City Permit Center is committed to serving the customers and citizens of Puyallup by providing inspections as outlined below, as well as plan reviews and basic permitting services, including responding to all customer and citizen permit inquiries. Permit Center staff will be available during regular business hours remotely. You can continue to reach the Permit Center by telephone at 253-864-4165 or by email at permitcenter@ci.puyallup.wa.us. For permit intake, application resubmittals or questions about issuances, please contact the Permit Center via phone or e-mail and a staff member will advise you on how we can best assist you with your permit.

In accordance with Governor Inslee’s guidance for Construction Projects on the Stay Home, Stay Healthy Proclamation 20-25 addendum for Phase 1 Construction Restart effective immediately, the City will be providing inspection services only for those projects meeting the guidance criteria circumstances.

• Please reference the information provided by the Governor’s Office regarding guidance and application of the Phase 1 construction.
  • Governor’s Construction Guidance
  • FAQ on the Governor’s April 29, 2020 memo on construction
• Under the Phase 1 rules, the City considers construction activity which has an existing issued City permit and has pre-existing site work already underway, whether as a stand-alone project or as part of a larger cohesive development, to constitute an “existing construction project”,  such that work can resume under the Governor’s order.
  • For example, 1) new single-family residences within an already constructed plat project would be considered an existing construction project.  2) Commercial development within a larger cohesive project would also be considered an existing construction project.
• Please see the FAQ and the order related to the definitions of previously authorized construction, existing construction and previously authorized construction.
  
  
• Issuance of a permit by the City of Puyallup does not imply that a project is in compliance with the Governor’s order.  
  
  
• Inspectors are granted the authority to determining if the inspection can be done safely.

Additional resources and references.

• This notice may be modified please visit City of Puyallup Permit Center link for the latest notice. http://www.cityofpuyallup.org/325/Permit-Support-Services
  
  
• Enforcement activity is managed by the State of Washington.  Workplace safety and health complaints may be submitted to the L&I Call Center: (1-800-423-7233) or via email to adag235@lni.wa.gov. General questions about how to comply with construction safety practices can be submitted to the state’s Business Response Center at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2562f1caf5814c46a6bf163762263aa5 . All other violations related to Proclamation 20-25 can be submitted via at: https://bit.ly/covid-compliance .
  
  
• Link to Governors proclamations, amendments and language options.
  
  
• Link to the Governors Phased Recovery Plan
  
  
• If further questions do arise regarding inspection on a specific project, contact your City project inspector, or Building Official Ray Cockerham (RayC@ci.puyallup.wa.us 253-841-5585) or Assistant City Engineer Ken Cook (KCook@ci.puyallup.wa.us. 253 864-4177.