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Council receives update on "Streamline Sacramento" development-process improvements; staff to return with deliverables and resource needs
Summary
Councilmembers received an update on Streamline Sacramento, a cross-department effort to speed building-permit review, inspections and issuance; near-term pilots include virtual inspections, expanded counter access, AI-assisted plan review and a possible self-certification path for minor permits.
City staff presented an update on "Streamline Sacramento," the administration's development-process improvement program aimed at shortening building-permit timelines, improving certainty, and expanding options for applicants.
Assistant Community Development Director Matt Hertel summarized the initiative and listed several actions under consideration or in early implementation: expanding public counter drop-in availability, filling vacancies in the building and engineering services divisions, piloting virtual inspection software, exploring AI tools to reduce plan-review cycles, and developing a minor-permit…
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