Planning & Development

Accept, review, and approve planning applications online.

• Force citizens to complete applications with necessary attachments and paid fees before they can click ‘submit’ with mandatory input fields
• Deem applications as complete
• Track, monitor, and receive planning application status updates
• Manage all required information, drawings, insurance documents, and other attachments in one workspace
• Collect secure applications

Keep track of your meetings to approve planning applications faster. 

• Manage pre-consultation requests
• Review past, upcoming, and proposed meetings
• Use templates to create agendas for planning commissions, boards, or council meetings
• Generate downloadable meeting packages that include relevant documents and agendas

Engage with your public online.

• Record and inform interested parties with status updates on projects
• Allow citizens to automatically receive decisions on applications by registering through a link/QR code
• Generate an automated list of property owners within the required public notice radius
• Measure public opinion
• Upload documents as part of public notice notes such as opinion, opposition, or support letters

Circulate complete applications in real-time to external and internal departments and agencies.

• Send multiple circulation requests at once
• Control commenting visibility
• Notify users via email when a new circulation request is made
• Receive all responses in one place
• Set upcoming due dates

Set regulatory processing timelines easily online.

• Determine how much time an authority user has to decide on an application
• Check how many days are left to deem an application as complete
• Keep track of upcoming due dates
• See an overview of urgency and all deadlines

Configure two-tier approvals between upper and lower-tier governments.

• Collaborate in real-time without paper or mailing documents
• Change permissions and accessibility for different users and governments
• Move an application to upper-tier decision-making

Enjoy interactive maps online that are integrated with your GIS.

• Retrieve detailed and accurate property information
• Find neighboring properties, property owners, and contact information for public notice purposes
• Access different layers such as flooding maps, heritage areas, etc.
• Determine the distance between different points

Download reports in a few clicks.

• Create reports, such as for payments and reviews
• Select and filter application categories, form fields, and optional fields
• Download reports as an Excel or CSV file
• Create pre-sets to save commonly used reports

Our team configures Cloudpermit to meet your needs.

• Change and modify workflows
• Receive support from trained department administrators
• Select application types from a pre-configured structure
• Use templates to create public notice agendas and templates, and other documents in PDF format
• Share planning applications with external departments, agencies, and third-party organizations
• Let stakeholder organizations manage their own reviewers and assignments

Accept secure payments online.

• Enable online and over-the-counter payments
• Integrate with third-party PCI compliant payment gateways
• Notify citizens when they have a due payment
• Create upfront application bills and bill drafts automatically