Inspector calls for more clusters: Gladwill gives fourth quarter, year-end report

Whitman County Building Inspector Dan Gladwill gave a fourth quarter and year-end building report to county commissioners Tuesday.

For the fourth quarter of 2018, he noted 54 permits were issued for a total valuation of $1.4 million.

“Kind of a medium average,” Gladwill said, noting that numbers were not as big as recent years of large commercial projects.

“We had a pretty good fourth quarter. It didn’t tail off as it had in the past. We just kept chugging along,” he said.

For the year-end report, the county issued 178 permits for $8.9 million in total value. Gladwill noted that 16 were for si...