Is Third-Party Plan Review a Good Fit For Your Municipality?

By The Plan Review Team | Dec 29, 2022 | 4 min. read

Whether your municipality is facing a staff shortage, dealing with a fluctuating workload, or needing additional technical expertise on a large or com...

The Benefits of a Rental Inspection Program (Checklist Included)

By The Building Department Team | 4 min. read

Rental inspection programs might not bring in revenue for your municipality, but they do serve an even more important purpose in your community — savi...

4 Common Roadblocks in Community and Economic Development

By The Planning and Zoning Team | 4 min. read

Development activity and economic changes can turn your planning and zoning department into a financial drain that diverts funds from critical communi...

Building Code, Innovation

4 Steps to Faster Plan Reviews

By The Building Department Team | 5 min. read

Lengthy permit turnarounds and building plan review backlogs are an all-too-common trend in communities across the country. And this backlog burden is...

The Role of Planning and Zoning Specialists in Your Community

By The Planning and Zoning Team | 3 min. read

Every day, you make choices that impact your community. While some of these decisions are small in scale, others are large enough to positively (or ne...

Process Improvement

5 Keys to Successful Community Development

By The Planning and Zoning Team | 2 min. read

Homeowners, developers, and contractors all want the same thing — for the development approval process to be fair and predictable. To meet these expec...

Building Code, Operations

How Do Third-Party School Building Inspections and Plan Reviews Work?