Bremerton permit lines and open city questions
Bremerton’s building permit handout is dated 4/2014 and cites the 2015 IBC and IRC, while the city’s adopted-codes page lists the 2021 IBC, IRC, and IFC. We treat the handout’s wall line as the working rule and confirm the edition with city staff before drawings are filed. The handout exempts a retaining wall four feet or less, counted from the footing’s base to its top edge, unless a surcharge presses on it or it impounds liquids.
Work that reaches into the street falls under BMC 11.02. That chapter bars private use of the right-of-way without a right-of-way use permit, and it lists curb cuts, handicap ramps, and driveway approaches as Type B permits. Division 2 of the city’s Design and Construction Standards sets a grading permit line at more than 50 cubic yards of excavation and/or fill, and it quotes the state construction stormwater trigger at one or more acres disturbed.
Nearby, we also build in Port Orchard, Silverdale, Poulsbo, and Bainbridge Island, and we serve the rest of western Washington.