City Of Portsmouth: City Of Portsmouth Inspections Department At Full Strength, Suspends Interim Third-Party Inspections

Press release from the City of Portsmouth:

March 11, 2022

As Chief Building Inspector Wolph reported in a memo shared with the City Council at their February 7, 2022 meeting, “When I arrived on December 6, 2021, there was a substantial backlog of outstanding permits both residential and commercial. The Inspections team and I have made solid process in reducing that backlog as well as identifying and issuing permits for complex projects that required detailed plan reviews and dialogue with the applicants. Moving forward, the City’s Viewpoint online permitting portal that all project applicants use allows me to study the analytics/metrics of the Department’s fees, expenditures and inspections. We will be using this tool and others to look for efficiencies and improvements for all users of the portal.”

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