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DPD cannot offer legal guarantees with respect to the information we provide in
response to inquiries made via this website.
The standards in Seattle’s Land Use and Building Codes and related codes are
subject to change. How these standards apply may also vary depending on
specific details relating to the site, or other information not immediately
available to us at the time we respond to your question. As a property owner or
project applicant you are ultimately responsible for complying with code
standards.
Some questions—due to their complexity or the need to refer to documents such as
plans and maps—do not lend themselves well to emailed responses. Depending on
the nature of your inquiry, you may be asked to visit our
Applicant Services Center
to discuss your question with us in person, or to send your question in
writing, with necessary diagrams; or to schedule a pre-application conference.
Response to some questions will require permit research, and some of these
services cannot be provided without assessing a fee. If your question is one
that we cannot readily respond to by email, we will write back to tell you how
best to resolve your question and what fees may apply.
Information provided in response to your question is meant to be helpful, but
we expressly do not assume liability for costs resulting from reliance on this
information. In the event of a conflict between information provided in
response to an inquiry via this website and a specific determination reached by
applying our codes to a submitted project application, the latter applies.
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