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We Prepare and File Your Central Oregon Building Permit

Building permit packages from $750, with a SiteFacts Report on your lot included. Submitted within 5 business days of complete information. A real person calls you within 24 business hours.

Your job is three things: the plans, an authorization signed by the owner, and the information we ask for.

Start my permitCall (541) 316-0371

You bring the plans. We file the permit and answer the county. Serving Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties from Terrebonne, OR.

Hand unrolling a residential site plan on a wooden desk
// 01. THE PROBLEM

One missing item can send the application back.

Sand & Sage Solutions prepares and files building permit packages for homeowners and small builders in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties, Oregon. Packages start at $750 and include a SiteFacts Report on your lot. Permit fees are paid to the county or city. Site plans are not included. For lots outside city limits, approval is the county's decision. Inside city limits, the city decides.

An application can also go in against the wrong submittal requirements. Either way, your project waits while you work out what the county meant.

We run the SiteFacts Report on your lot and prepare your application. Then we submit it, track it through review, and respond and resubmit if the county or city comes back with corrections.

Start my permit
// 02. WHAT'S INCLUDED AND WHAT IT COSTS

Building permit packages, from $750

What's included

  • A SiteFacts Report on your lot
  • Your application, prepared to your county’s or city’s submittal requirements
  • Electronic submittal
  • Status tracking through review
  • Every correction round is at no added fee.

Permit fees are paid to the county or city. Site plans are not included. They are a separate service, quoted on request.

Minor permits

Driveway, fence, roofing, erosion control and similar permits are quoted. Tell us what you need and we'll send a price.

Other permits on your project

Some projects need more than the building permit. We find those in the SiteFacts Report, then quote them separately.

If your permit needs stamped engineering, your engineer prepares it and we handle the permit filing.

Septic permits are filed only when you provide a completed design.

What we don't handle

We don't handle major land use applications (conditional use permits, rezoning, partitions, subdivisions), and we don't provide engineering, surveying, geotechnical reports, stormwater design or landscape architecture.

// 03. HOW IT WORKS

For a building permit package, three steps from first call to submitted permit.

  1. 01We call you.

    A real person calls you within 24 business hours. You tell us about the project. We start with an intake review to confirm your project fits our services. If it needs a planning application, HOA architectural review, or anything else outside our services, we flag it early.

  2. 02We research and prepare.

    We run the SiteFacts Report on your lot, then prepare your application to your county’s or city’s submittal requirements. You or your builder send the plans and the information we ask for. The owner signs an authorization.

  3. 03We submit and answer the county.

    Submitted within 5 business days of complete information. We submit electronically and track status through review. If the county or city comes back with corrections, we respond and resubmit.

Start my permit
Couple reviewing house plans at a kitchen table.
// 04. CORRECTIONS

When the county asks for something else

On a building permit package, counties can send corrections even on a complete submittal. When yours does, we respond and resubmit. Every correction round is at no added fee. If the county needs something only you or your builder has, we pass the request along and send your answer back.

For lots outside city limits, approval is the county's decision. Inside city limits, the city decides.

// 05. WHAT THE RESEARCH FINDS

In Crook County, a county road access permit comes before the driveway.

In Crook County, a county permit is required before you create access to a county road or a dedicated public road.

SiteFacts analysis of Crook County Code 12.04.060, 12.04.070, 12.04.075, 12.04.110 and 12.04.120 shows that applications go to Crook County Planning and are reviewed by the county roadmaster. The access must be built within 6 months of approval, and the roadmaster makes a final inspection.

Road access applications are also subject to the access management standards in Chapter 18.176 of the county code. Work in the county road right-of-way, the strip of land set aside for the road, needs a separate Individual Right-of-Way permit from the Crook County Road Department.

Confirm the current requirements for your project with Crook County Planning.

In unincorporated Deschutes County, the wildfire hazard mitigation section of Oregon’s residential code (ORSC Section R327) applies whether or not a parcel is in a mapped hazard area.

SiteFacts analysis of Deschutes County Ordinance 2026-002 shows that it added Deschutes County Code 15.04.010(A)(1), was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners on January 28, 2026, and took effect April 1, 2026.

R327 covers newly constructed dwellings and their accessory structures governed by Oregon’s residential code, and a parcel’s mapped hazard status does not exempt it. Some small accessory structures are excepted, but the ordinance and the county’s fire hardening page describe those exceptions differently.

Inside a city, R327 applies where the city council has adopted it. Confirm the rule for your project with Deschutes County Building Safety, 541-385-1743, or with your city’s building department if the lot is inside a city.

In unincorporated Jefferson County, a driveway connection permit is required before you build a new driveway onto a county or local access road.

SiteFacts analysis of Jefferson County Zoning Ordinance sections 17.401.1 and 17.401.5 shows that the county also requires evidence of legal access that meets the emergency vehicle access standards in section 17.426.2.E before it issues building or septic permits. Access from a state highway needs approval from the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Jefferson County Code Chapter 12.18 sets road design standards, including a residential driveway width of 12 to 20 feet and driveway culverts of at least 12 inches.

Confirm the requirements for your lot with Jefferson County Community Development.

Requirements differ by county and city, which is why the research comes before the application.

// 06. PROOF

Who you are working with

Founded by Don Healy, who brings 20+ years of construction and operations experience. SiteFacts is a product of Sand & Sage Solutions LLC, with 300+ SiteFacts Reports across 140+ jurisdictions in 26 states behind it.

Builders who work with us: Simplicity Homes, HiLine Homes and JF Homes.

Sand & Sage carries general and professional liability insurance.

"I am so grateful Don was available to assist us with the permitting process for our new home and shop. ... He was great with communication and got our permits submitted, keeping an eye on where we were at through the whole process."
Heather, 5 star Google review
// 07. AREAS SERVED

Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties

We file building permits in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties, Oregon, including permits in the City of Bend. If you are building outside these counties, ask us.

Sand and Sage SolutionsTerrebonne, OR(541) 316-0371Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
// 08. START HERE

Hand off the permit work.

You bring the plans. We file the permit and answer the county. You get back to your build.

Tell us about your project. A real person calls you within 24 business hours.