Lawmakers are moving quickly to advance a bill meant to ease a backlog of requests for reviews commercial-construction plans before this year's short legislative session runs out.

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As the Department of Safety and Professional Services continues to struggle to work its way through a persistent backlog of request for commercial-plan reviews, new attention has been called to staffing at the regulatory agency.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill meant to clean up a law that has led some local governments to require contractors to file applications for building permits in both paper and electronic forms.

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U.S. home construction slipped last month as an uptick in the building of single-family homes was offset by a big drop in apartment construction.

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A new bill would clean up an existing law that, amid confusion, has led some local governments to require contractors to file both paper and electronic copies of building permits.

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The state Supreme Court is eliminating a regulatory hurdle for a large dairy farm in central Wisconsin.

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As early as next week the state Assembly could be taking up a proposal that would eliminate two councils that help state officials both with reviewing complaints made against building inspectors and with drawing up rules used to verify the financial soundness of home builders.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined Wednesday to overturn the state’s “bright-line” rule stipulating that developers have no vested interest in a property until they’ve obtained a building permit.

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Local governments have been busy issuing construction permits this year, and the estimated construction costs associated with these permits have already surpassed last year’s totals in at least one big Wisconsin city.

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As Milwaukee officials continue to bask in their city's ongoing construction boom, the value of projects for which municipal building permits were issued surpassed $303 million last year.

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