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Facility Permit Program (FPP) — Intro

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Facility Permit Program (FPP)

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About the Facility Permit Program

In 1999, the City of Portland established the Facility Permit Program (FPP) to streamline the process for building owners and managers to undertake regular improvements, modifications, and maintenance on their buildings with ongoing construction needs.

One inspection team works with facilities on all plan review, permitting, and inspections on commercial interior tenant improvements and alterations. 

From the beginning, FPP’s success has relied on a combination of creativity and flexibility in our approach to City business and open, honest, two-way communication with our customers to get our clients’ projects from “concept to construction.”

Participants may register one or more buildings. Each building must be re-registered annually. The same team will complete plan reviews and will provide inspection services for all customer buildings regardless of geographical location. This approach builds long-term, ongoing relationships with the City's FPP team. We achieve a high level of familiarity with the customer’s building portfolio.

FPP services are billed at an hourly rate. This allows FPP to offer additional services such as pre-application consultations. Projects valued at $600,000 or more are assessed standard fees for all building plan review and building permit portions of the project. For customer convenience, monthly billing statements are issued, which identify all charges by date, discipline, project number or name, and type of service rendered.

While the program is designed to expedite the plan review and permitting process, it is not intended to relax code requirements or to provide lower inspection or licensing standards than those required under the State of Oregon Statutes, Administrative Rules, or City of Portland Municipal Titles. The goal is to provide inspection and plan review services as efficiently and effectively as possible to FPP clients.

What FPP can and can't do

✅ Allowed

  • Maintenance and repair
  • Major Tenant Improvements and Remodels
  • Alteration or renovation of existing tenant spaces
  • Creation of new tenant spaces within the existing building shell
  • Changes in the use of existing space, within an occupancy classification
  • Occupancy changes that do not create a greater overall relative hazard category determination
  • Addition or alteration of mechanical, plumbing, and electrical services.

   

🚫 Not allowed

  • Changes of occupancy that create a greater overall relative hazard category determination
  • Construction of new buildings
  • Additions that extend or increase the square footage of a building or structure
  • Electrical services
  • Feeders greater than 400 amps
  • Anything over 1,000 volts
  • Sign permits
  • Photovoltaic systems
  • Minor Labels or other alternative permitting and inspection programs within FPP Buildings
  • Any work deemed by the FPP staff to be better suited to the standard review process or beyond the scope of the program.

FPP forms and documents

Trade permit applications 

Fire Bureau applications

Water Bureau form

Client and building list

The list of all currently registered buildings. Search for a building by using the building's name or address.

The Client & Building List is updated monthly: