Burien, WA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-03

39 new building permits were filed in Burien, WA over the trailing 7 days, with $0 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-08-03 · Last permit logged 2026-08-03

Permits filed · this week

39

▼ 25.0% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$0

Prior 7-day comparison

52

permits filed previous week

Burien permit review backlog

Of 1,341 Burien permits with a published review status, 0 (0.0%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
ISSUED96071.6%
CLOSED33925.3%
ARCH_CLOSE161.2%
CANCELED70.5%
FINALED60.4%
INSPECTION50.4%
FEES_PAID20.1%
FEESDUE20.1%

Is the Burien building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Burien, WA logged 39 permits in the last 7 days versus 52 the week before — a 25.0% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 MICHAEL KERRY PORTER 3
2 WILLIAM M HEAVENER 3
3 ROBERT LOUIS HARLEY WOFFORD 2
4 GERALD ARTHUR HOEFER 2
5 MICHAEL K PORTER 2

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Residential - Electric 17 43.6%
Residential - Mechanical 9 23.1%
Multi-Family/Commercial - Electric 3 7.7%
Type C (Utility) 2 5.1%
Multi-Family/Commercial - Low Voltage 2 5.1%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-08-01 Multi-Family/Commercial - Low Voltage 1043 SW 152ND ST TIMOTHY WHALL
2026-07-31 Residential - Mechanical 3140 SW 171ST ST GERALD ARTHUR HOEFER
2026-07-30 Residential - Mechanical 12047 12TH AVE S MICHAEL KERRY PORTER
2026-07-30 Residential - Mechanical 1210 SW 157TH ST GERALD ARTHUR HOEFER
2026-07-30 Multi-Family/Commercial - Electric 133 SW 158TH ST Eric T Sloss
Methodology. Data sourced from Burien's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-08-03.

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