Building Permit History Editorial Team

Start with the Providence Recorder for a deed, lien, discharge or recorded map, and name the instrument before requesting a missing record.

Use Saint Paul’s map for inspected residential Fire CO structures, read the grade as an inspection-cycle category, and request the exact missing record.

Open the data sheet linked to a Hennepin surveyed-property feature, preserve its identity, and use the County Surveyor when a feature is missing.

A covenant, restriction or easement note on a San Juan County assessor card is a lead. Preserve it, then identify the separate Auditor instrument.

When a Pacific County assessor card lacks an address or parcel number, preserve the addition, block and lot, then separate scan quality from the physical record.

Normalize the Spokane parcel number with a dash, inspect every card image in sequence, and contact the Eastern Region Branch when indexing is incomplete.

For a Prince George’s County Site/Road record, preserve the original system and distinguish a new application from an extension, renewal, revision, inspection or document request.

For a pre-1969 King County occupancy question, search the Commissioners’ index by approximate date or historic owner or applicant, then request the cited proceeding.

A Santa Barbara BLD-REV receives its own number linked to the original BLD permit. Keep the revision, parent record and inspections in one lineage.

Philadelphia’s occupancy evidence depends on when the use was established, not when the building was constructed. Preserve that date before choosing a record.