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In the first six months of 2023, East Brunswick was tops in New Jersey in the amount of square footage of new retail space approved for construction. The township authorized permits for 310,696 ...
A certificate of occupancy is evidence that the building complies substantially with the plans and specifications that have been submitted to, and approved by, the local authority. It complements a building permit —a document that must be filed by the applicant with the local authority before construction to indicate that the proposed ...
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions. [1][2] House building permits, for example, are subject to building codes. There is also a "plan check" (PLCK) to check compliance with plans for the area, if ...
t. e. An impact fee is a fee that is imposed by a local government within the United States on a new or proposed development project to pay for all or a portion of the costs of providing public services to the new development. [1] Impact fees are considered to be a charge on new development to help fund and pay for the construction or needed ...
Single-family starts increased 5.2% from a year ago. Multi-family building permits rose 8.4% to a rate of 451,000 units. Building permits as a whole advanced 4.9% to a rate of 1.475 million units ...
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission, usually from a local council. The main purpose of building codes is to protect public health ...
Special-use permits are also required when a property has been deemed a "nonconforming use." A permit for a nonconforming use will allow the owner of a previously-compliant property to continue the existing use. This often arises when a property has been rezoned or amortized. Amortization is unconstitutional in many states, and is a ...
A building inspection is an inspection performed by a building inspector, a person who is employed by either a city, township or county and is usually certified in one or more disciplines qualifying them to make professional judgment about whether a building meets building code requirements. A building inspector may be certified either as a ...