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Oak Island staff urge $30,000 permitting upgrade and $575,000 UDO rewrite to speed approvals
Summary
Development Services Director Matt Kirkland told council that the town’s Edmonds enterprise software lacks automation for permitting and communications, proposing a roughly $30,000 permitting component and a $575,000 Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) rewrite to align rules with the recently adopted land‑use plan.
Matt Kirkland, Oak Island’s director of development services, told the council that permitting remains a bottleneck and that the town needs dedicated investment in software and code updates to speed reviews and reduce staff time.
“Some of Edmonds certainly is functional in terms of tracking applications ... but there are a couple of deficiencies,” Kirkland said, citing largely manual permit entry, fee calculations and a lack of automated inspection notifications. He said contractors and residents often must call or email for status updates because the portal does not push notifications.
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