
Jim Hickey, AICP
Director of Planning Services, SAFEbuilt
Jim brings decades of municipal planning experience, helping communities modernize zoning codes, streamline permitting, and manage development pressure effectively.
If you’re under pressure to deliver more housing, long timelines, limited staff, and outdated codes make it even harder.
This on-demand webinar gives you clear strategies to streamline approvals, update zoning, and build the capacity to keep projects moving forward.
Clear, actionable ideas for city managers, community development directors, and building officials.
Shorten review times and keep compliance intact with clearer steps and checklists.
Enable more housing types, including missing middle options, through targeted code updates.
Use flexible staffing and third-party reviewers to balance workloads during peak demand.
Align comprehensive plans and corridor or area plans so housing growth matches service capacity.
Identify state and federal grants that support code modernization and process improvements.
Communicate benefits and address common questions on density, parking, and traffic.
Director of Planning Services, SAFEbuilt
Jim brings decades of municipal planning experience, helping communities modernize zoning codes, streamline permitting, and manage development pressure effectively.
Principal Planner, SAFEbuilt
Dave Dixon brings more than a decade of experience helping communities across the U.S. and Canada shape their future. His work spans comprehensive and redevelopment planning, urban design, site planning, and land use code updates, with a strong specialty in GIS.