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DBI and Planning outline efforts to speed small permits and finish permit‑tracking rollout amid data and fee issues
Summary
Planning’s Small Project Team (SPROTT) is reducing triage time to 1–2 weeks for small permits; DBI’s Permit Tracking System (Accela) User Acceptance Testing is near completion but faces remaining issues including legacy fee 'grandfathering' for ~13,000 permits and lack of a lock for inspection records; Controller's fee study expected next week.
At its Feb. 18 meeting the Building Inspection Commission received several operational updates from DBI and City departments aimed at speeding permitting and modernizing the department’s IT systems.
Planning Department presentation: Dan Snyder and Assistant Director Liz Waddy described the Small Project Team (SPROTT), a five-person team triaging small projects — defined as those that do not require a mandatory hearing — and moving them into review quickly. Snyder said assignment times for those small permits have fallen from months to one-to-two weeks and that the team’s work frees entitlement planners to prioritize larger projects. SPROTT has…
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