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Process Improvement
Faster Plan Review Turnarounds are Within Your Reach
End backlog burdens with a four-step approach to faster plan reviews. Imagine if you could trade out building plan review backlogs, customer complaints, and vacant lots for faster plan review turnarounds, consistent service, and a thriving community.
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Process Improvement
What Successful Municipalities Know About Building Inspections that Others Don’t
There is an ever-increasing need for local municipalities to maintain the highest levels of community satisfaction, delivering fast and responsive services. With staffing challenges, budgetary restrictions, and rising personnel costs, local governments are searching for alternative service delivery options. One of the often-overlooked areas that can help quell rising frustrations is building inspections. No matter … Continued
Innovation
It’s Time to Review Your Building Department’s Plan Review Process
Whether you’re a municipal leader or building official, you’re probably all too familiar with the frustrations that go along with building plan review delays. Construction booms can bring an onslaught of permit applications that your staff might not be equipped to handle. Yet the thought of hiring more reviewers during these peak times, only to … Continued
Process Improvement
Top 5 Plan Review Challenges Facing Building Officials and What to do About it
Ah, yes. The dreaded building plan review backlog, an issue many municipalities across the country are all too familiar with. Construction booms bring floods of new permit applications, forcing building departments to process more plan reviews, often without the additional staff or resources needed to handle them efficiently. What happens? Permit delays, vacant lots, and … Continued
Process Improvement
What’s the Difference Between a Good Building Inspection and a Bad One?
(No, we’re not talking about “passing” or “failing.”) Seems like this one should be easy to answer, right? A good inspection finds and notes areas that are problematic and a bad one just glosses over them. But, as any inspection expert will tell you, it’s a little more complicated than that. Let’s break it down. … ContinuedIndustry Resources
Operations
How 3 Innovative Cities Make Budgets Easy
Implementing principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration around a government’s budget offers great return on investment.
Operations
Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts Revitalize Communities in California
As a new tool, EIFDs are partly a learning experience as more local governments begin to establish them.
Planning
