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San Francisco to consolidate permit systems with new PPTS portal; December rollout targeted
Summary
City staff briefed the Planning Commission and Building Inspection Commission on the joint Permit and Project Tracking System (PPTS), powered by Exela, saying it will consolidate legacy systems, add a public Citizen Access Portal, and aims for a phased rollout beginning in December with staff training and data migration still underway.
San Francisco planning and building officials told a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and Building Inspection Commission that the city will replace several legacy permit systems with a single platform, often identified in the presentations as PPTS (Accelera/Exela). Henry Bartley, project manager with the Department of Technology, said the platform will provide a single master data source for both departments and a public-facing Citizen Access Portal for searches, applications and an enforcement tab.
The portal will let members of the public search projects, view project status and application histories, and—if registered—apply for certain permits online, according to Glenn Cabarrus, the Planning Department's project business lead. "One of the beauties of this search result is actually these are live links,"…
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