Services and Resources for Fire and life safety

The Facility Permit Program (FPP) is designed to serve customers with on-going interior tenant improvements where facility maintenance, upgrade and renovations are frequent.

Explainer from the Portland Bureau of Transportation) about “no turn on red” technology for traffic signals.

Explainer from the Portland Bureau of Transportation) about “rest in red” technology for traffic signals. How the technology works, how it’s deployed, what it costs. Information provided by PBOT’s Traffic Systems & Operations group and Vision Zero team.

Fire performance art requires that both the artist and the venue have a fire permit. Fire performance artists must have a permit for each performance.

This permit is for Candles (handheld); Campfires; Small Scales Special Effect; Sleepovers; and Theatrical Performances.

Permits are required for temporary events that may pose a fire and life safety hazard. This includes: events of 500 or more in an assembly building, 49 or more in a non-assembly building or fenced outdoor area, trade shows with six or more booths, and any haunted house.

Haunted houses or other similar installations such as fun houses, etc., which are set up for temporary use not to exceed 90 days, and if located inside a structure not designed for this specific use, shall comply with the requirements below.

Permits are required for the use of tents or membrane structures. These are temporary structures, enclosures or shelters, with or without sidewalls or drops, constructed of fabric or pliable material and supported by any manner except by air or the contents.

Fire performance art requires that both the artist and the venue have a fire permit. Fire performance artists must have a permit for each performance. The venue can get a single use permit or an annual permit.

Fire permit application for the use of pyrotechnic or special effects at concerts, movies, plays, theatrical productions, etc.

The permit application must be submitted with the following required documents.

About the Safe Routes to School program at the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

Protecting human lives is core to Vision Zero, the goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on Portland streets.

In 2022, we were tracking 40 audits with 226 recommendations. Topics ranged from internal financial focused subjects, such as payment card use and construction costs, to programs that impact Portlanders directly, such as the City’s approach to policing gun violence and cleaning up homeless camps.

Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) updates the public on our Vision Zero work annually — what work we’ve done and what areas need more attention — through the annual Vision Zero Action Plan Progress Report.

Permit applications for an assembly event must include a floor plan.

Anyone who lives or works in Portland is invited to take NET training for free. There are over 1,500 Active volunteers in Portland. Join them today, with the four steps below!

This report, “Beyond Traffic Safety: Building community belonging and safety in public spaces,” documents community members’ experiences and reflections on what personal safety means to them and ways government agencies and community-based organizations can engage to make public spaces safer.

The Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications (BOEC) 2019-2023 Strategic Plan with the bureau's mission, vision, program areas, and five strategic initiatives.