Franklin County sees small increase in new home starts

                Franklin County is seeing a small uptick in new home construction.

County director of Administrative Services Alan Pierce said that during the last fiscal year, Franklin County issued 45 permits for new home construction.

That’s up from 26 in 2013.

The average since 2009 has been about 28 new home permits per year.

Even though we have seen an increase in new homes – Franklin county is still well below the peak reached in 2004 and 2005 when the county was seeing over 150 housing starts a year.

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