Permits roundup: 26 new homes on the plateau, Tacoma Water pump station

Pierce County records show 112 permit applications or issuances from Sept. 9 to 30 in the unincorporated areas around Orting (outside city limits, mostly the Tehaleh, Uplands and Sunrise neighborhoods on the plateau). The city issues its own permits, which are not included.

By type:

• 34 residential construction permits, including 26 new single-family homes (22 issued, 4 under review), with a combined estimated building value of about $12.2 million
• 21 residential site-development and 19 side-sewer permits, mostly for those new homes
• 12 mechanical and 6 plumbing permits, including 7 for standby generators
• Smaller numbers of fire-sprinkler, alarm and commercial permits

Where the homes are: 15 in the Uplands development (along 178th and 179th streets E and 140th Ave. E), 10 in Glacier Pointe at Tehaleh, five of them single-story senior housing, and one in Sunrise Heights.

Notable projects:

• A Tacoma Water pump station at Canyonfalls Creek on Falling Water Blvd. E, valued at $1.9 million, applied for Sept. 14.
• Embark at Uplands Phase 2 (Viewpoint Pl. E): site-development and sewer-extension applications, plus a request to change an approved townhome area into a gated duplex-and-townhome community.
• Road and storm-drain permit issued for Elysian Meadows South Phase 1 at Tehaleh: about 9,470 feet of new road.
• Mechanical work at Hunt Elementary School, and plumbing for an addition at McMillan Animal Hospital on SR-162.

Also new: the state Department of Labor & Industries shows one new Orting-based contractor license in the period, for Eikon Homes LLC, a general construction contractor licensed Sept. 23.