E-Permitting? E-Plan Reviews? Other?

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Consider the following streamlining savings:  (Excerpt from ALLIANCE FOR BUILDING REGULATORY REFORM IN THE DIGITAL AGE)

e-Permit Processing

now used in over 500 jurisdictions across the nation ranging in population from Los Angeles (3,695,000) to Cobleskill, NY (5,300) reduce staff and building owner/architect times to process permits by between 30 – 40%

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems in Shelby Co., TN; Orlando, FL and Washington Co., OR reduce the time to schedule and conduct inspections from 2-3 days to less than 24 hours.

Mobile field inspection technology

being used in cities including Phoenix, AZ; San Dimas, CA increase the number of inspections performed per day by 25% and reduce contractor down time waiting for inspections and their results by 20%.

e-Plan Review(s)

now being conducted in: Atlanta, GA; Bend, OR; Maricopa Co., AZ;

Osceola Co., FL

and a dozen other jurisdictions reduce the amount of time it takes to review plans by 40%, eliminate lost plans, and reduce by 80% the number of trips to these jurisdictions by out of state owners/architects.

Lastly,

streamlined processes

are getting buildings up and open faster, putting both people to work and revenues into the jurisdiction’s coffers sooner; for example a 200 room hotel open just 3 months earlier using streamlined processes with an 80% occupancy = $144,000 in added tax revenues to a jurisdiction just from the 10% occupancy tax on $100/night rooms.While many communities are talking about having “shovel ready” projects for receipt of Federal and state economic stimulus funding in 2009, is the jurisdiction where you work as a building or land use official, an elected official or where your next construction project is going to be built “Regulatory Ready”?

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