Monthly Building Permit Activity Report

CIRB sincerely appreciates your time and attention to providing current and accurate building permit information in this monthly form. Do not hesitate to call 916-340-3340 or email us at CHF-CIRB@mychf.org with any questions or concerns you may have. Please aim to submit this information before the last week of each month.

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Note: Form fields below marked with an asterisk are required. We encourage you to hover your cursor over the "i" (tooltip) icons to the left of the building code numbers on the form to make sure building activity is entered in the appropriate form fields. If your jurisdiction did not issue any (or any applicable) building permits for the month reported, please scroll to the bottom of the form and check the box for no applicable permits.

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New Residential Building

Code Description No. of Housing Units No. of Permits Dollar Valuation of Construction

Code 101

Single-Family Houses: Single-Family Houses includes all detached, semi-detached and attached one-family houses, including condos*, townhouses* or row houses. Includes prefabricated, sectionalized, panelized, and modular homes, which are manufactured partially offsite, but are transported and assembled at the construction site. Includes new construction (not conversions or remodels) of secondary or additional dwelling units, guest houses, granny flats and casitas. Please exclude mobile homes. (*Condos and townhomes should be considered multi-family and placed in categories 104 and 105 if they are 3 or more units and under the same continuous roof, or are in a multi-story building and constructed above or below one another.)

101 		New Single-Family Houses

Code 103

Two-Family Buildings: Two-Family Buildings (duplexes) includes all buildings containing two housing units, which may be one above the other or side-by-side.

103		 Two-Family Buildings

Code 104

Three-to-Four-Unit Structures: Three- and Four-Family Buildings includes all buildings containing three or four housing units.

 104		 Three-to-Four-Unit Structures

Code 105

Five-Or-More-Unit Structures: Five-or-More Family Buildings (5+ unit apartments and complexes) include all buildings containing five or more housing units. If the permit is for a “mixed-use” structure, please split the valuation between each use (i.e. apartments, new commercial, new office or professional building, parking garage, etc.). You may also attach a permit copy at the end of this form for our reference or contact us at CHF-CIRB@mychf.org for guidance.

105		 Five-Or-More-Unit Structures

New Nonresidential Buildings

Code Description Dollar Valuation of Construction

Code 213

Hotels and Motels: Includes hotels, motels, apartment hotels and tourist cabins intended for transient accommodations.

213		 Hotels and Motels

Code 214

Other Non-housekeeping Shelter: Other Non-housekeeping Shelter includes lodge associations or club buildings with bedrooms, rooming houses, dormitories, fraternity houses, and similar non-housekeeping residential buildings. Secondary dwelling units(SDUs), additional dwelling units (ADUs), guest houses, granny flats, and casitas are reported in category 101.

214		 Other Non-housekeeping Shelter

Code 318

Amusement, Social and Recreational: Amusement, Social and Recreational Buildings are designed to provide amusement or recreation, such as theaters, radio and TV studios, auditoriums, athletic and social clubs, YMCA buildings used primary for recreation, arenas, bowling alleys, skating rinks, bathhouses and gymnasiums.

318		 Amusement, Social and Recreational

Code 319

Churches and Other Religious Buildings: Churches and Other Religious Buildings includes churches, temples, synagogues, parish halls, Sunday school rooms, monasteries and convents.

319		 Churches and Other Religious Buildings

Code 320

Industrial Buildings: Industrial Buildings includes plants producing, processing, or assembling goods and materials, such as factories, machine shops, paper mills, beverage plants, manufacturing and printing plants. Does not include accessory and storage buildings, which are reported in category 328.

320		 Industrial Buildings

Code 321

Parking Garages: Parking Garages includes garage buildings and open-deck parking structures to be used primarily for transient parking. Does not include storage garages, which are reported in category 328, or residential garages, which are reported in 438. Parking lots are out of the scope of this report.

321		 Parking Garages

Code 322

Service Stations and Repair Garages: Includes automotive service stations and repair garages. Does not include auto sales buildings, dealerships or any retail gas station buildings, which are reported in category 327.

322		 Service Stations and Repair Garages

Code 323

Hospitals and Institutional: Hospitals and Institutional Buildings include hospitals, convalescent homes, rest homes, homes for the ages, nursing homes, orphanages and similar establishments for prolonged institutional care. Does not include doctors’ offices, which are reported in category 324, or staff houses and apartments which are included in items 101 through 105.

323		 Hospitals and Institutional

Code 324

Office, Bank and Professional Buildings: Office, Bank and Professional Buildings includes offices, banks, financial institutions, administration buildings and medical office buildings.

324		 Office, Bank and Professional Buildings

Code 325

Public Works and Utilities: Public Works and Utilities (not to be confused with publicly funded, government-owned or civil works construction) includes buildings providing public services, such as transportation, communication, power, light, heat, sewage and garbage disposal, trash incineration and water supply. Also includes new windmills, cell phone towers and solar installations valued at $1 million or more.

325		 Public Works and Utilities

Code 326

Schools and Other Educational: Schools and Other Educational Buildings includes schools, libraries, museums, observatories, universities and academies. Does not include student housing and apartments, which are included in items 101 through 105.

326		 Schools and Other Educational

Code 327

Stores and Customer Service: Stores and Customer Service includes buildings used in buying, selling, distributing, or storing merchandise and/or performing customer services, such as stores, auto and other showrooms, warehouses, restaurants, taverns, night clubs, wineries (report wine production facilities in 320), bakery shops, laundry and dry cleaning establishments, beauty salons and barber shops.

327		 Stores and Customer Service

Code 328

Other Non-Residential Buildings: Other Non-Residential Buildings includes sheds, boathouses, barns, silos, dog pounds or kennels, post offices, storage buildings, animal hospitals, jails, reformatories, agriculture buildings, steel buildings, workshops, accessory buildings, pool houses and cabanas.

328		 Other Non-Residential Buildings

Code 329

Structures Other Than Buildings: Structures Other Than Buildings includes residential and non-residential, non-building recreational facility construction and harbor and port facility construction, such as outdoor swimming pools, marinas, outdoor stadiums, parks, outdoor theaters, boardwalks, wharves and docks. Also includes decks, patios, canopies, shade structures, fountains, sewer laterals, trash enclosures, trellises and retaining walls. Flag poles and light posts are out of the scope of this report.

329		 Structures Other Than Buildings

Additions, Alterations and Conversions of Existing Structures

Code Description Dollar Valuation of Construction

Code 434

Residential Alterations/Additions: Residential Alterations/Additions includes all permits issued for additions and alterations to existing housekeeping residential buildings and conversions of nonresidential buildings to residential buildings. Also includes repairs, remodels, rehabs and abatements. Additions of garages and carports are included in category 438. Does not include installation permits to cover electrical, encroachment, plumbing (please report new sewer laterals in 329), reroofs, installations of fire escapes, signs and elevators.

434		 Residential Alterations/Additions

Code 437

Non-Residential Alterations/Additions: Non-Residential Alterations/Additions includes all permits issued for additions and alterations to existing non-residential or commercial buildings, and conversions of residential buildings to non-residential buildings. Also includes tenant improvement (TI) projects, repairs, remodels, rehabs and abatements. Does not include installation permits to cover electrical, encroachment, plumbing (please report new sewer laterals in 329), reroofs, racking, installations of fire escapes, signs and elevators.

437		 Non-Residential Alterations/Additions

Code 438

Residential Garages and Carports (New and Alts): Additions of Residential Garages and Carports includes additions to existing or the construction of new residential garages and carports, whether attached or detached. Includes conversions from other residential structures to garages or carports; however, a garage conversion to a residential building should be counted in category 434. Does not include items in categories 101 through 105.

438		 Residential Garages (New and Alts)

Energy Permits

Code Description No. of Housing Units No. of Permits Dollar Valuation of Construction

Code 340-R

Solar Residential Installations includes roof- or ground-mounted solar (photovoltaic) systems or arrangements of electrical components which utilize and maintain sunlight as a power source installed on new or existing residential structures.

340-R		 Solar Residential Installations

Code 340-C

Solar Non-Residential Installations includes roof- or ground-mounted solar (photovoltaic) systems or arrangements of electrical components which utilize and maintain sunlight as a power source installed on new or existing non-residential structures.

340-C		 Solar Non-Residential Installations

Code 500-R

HVAC Residential Changeouts includes the number of changeouts reported in the permit issued (as there can be multiple changeouts in one issued permit) of a residential HVAC system, which involves or affects refrigerant-containing components, including ductwork in an un-conditioned space, a furnace or FAU, an AC condenser or evaporator coil, wall heaters and swamp coolers. Compressor replacements are not included in the scope of this report.

500-R		 HVAC Residential Changeouts

Code 500-C

HVAC Non-Residential Changeouts includes the number of changeouts reported in the permit issued (as there can be multiple changeouts in one issued permit) of a non-residential HVAC system, which involves or affects refrigerant-containing components, including ductwork in an un-conditioned space, a furnace or FAU, an AC condenser or evaporator coil, wall heaters and swamp coolers. Compressor replacements are not included in the scope of this report.

500-C		 HVAC Non-Residential Changeouts

Code 502

Electric Vehicle Chargers and Stations includes infrastructure, wall chargers or outlets supplying energy for the recharging of electric vehicles, such as plug-in electric cars and hybrid vehicles.

502		 Electric Vehicle Chargers and Stations

Total Valuation of Permits Issued

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