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City details permitting progress, volunteer intake and state grants as recovery work continues
Summary
Community Development staff reported increases in permit processing, rollout of a volunteer intake program to help owner-builders, and a possible state-managed Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award; commissioners pressed staff on phasing and open permits ahead of the hurricane season.
City staff told the commission Tuesday that permitting and long-term recovery work from Hurricanes Helene and Milton are progressing but remain a large operational task.
“Right now we have currently issued 1,636 permits out of 2,544 received,” said Denise Sanderson, interim director of community development. “We’re averaging about 42 permits a day,” she added, describing a rising daily throughput as plan-review work continues.
Sanderson told the commission the city has issued nearly 2,000 substantial-damage/substantial-improvement (SISD) determinations and is still awaiting portions of Title Basin data. She said the city is now encouraging applicants to close out permits before pulling new work to avoid cumulative substantial-improvement calculations tied to FEMA rules.
Staff described steps to speed owner-builder submittals: a…
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