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Planning and Building details permit metrics, LCP update and digitization plans
Summary
Planning & Building Services reviewed staffing, permit volumes, new metrics reporting, the local coastal program update, Fort Bragg office move, and scanning/digitization work; staff said permit applications have fallen toward pre-cannabis-ordinance levels and outlined steps to speed reviews and electronic plan checks.
Planning and Building Services presented priorities for 2025, including continuing day-to-day permit processing, rolling out a public metrics dashboard, starting major technical work on the Local Coastal Program (LCP) update, completing a Fort Bragg office move, and modernizing permit-tracking and records through scanning and new software.
Director Julia Krog said the department has 45 employees with an overall vacancy rate of about 19 percent and staff split across Ukiah and Fort Bragg offices. Krog noted the department had reorganized front-counter administrative functions under the building division and recently gained approved classification changes intended to…
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