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Permits and Approvals Management

GeoPlan provides a full suite of applications for managing municipal operations. This page describes the Permits and Approvals Module. Building inspection and planning departments can automate permits and other approvals with GeoPlan. Application information is easily recorded and you can track and schedule approval steps, inspections and meetings. You can even specify that a validation check be performed before permit issuance to insure that builders meet certain insurance and license requirements. Application and permit forms can be easily designed to suit your needs and monthly detail and summary reporting is fully automated with GeoPlan. Customizable Permit and Fee Types Flexible set-up procedures are used to define the types of permits and related fees that your municipality issues and tracks. GeoPlan makes it easy for you to track multiple fees associated with a single permit. But this module is not limited to permits and inspections GeoPlan gives you the flexibility to define any type of approval process that you need to track. Detailed Tracking of Permit Actions Inspections are treated as one type of action that can be associated with a permit. The inspection types and other actions defined by you at set-up conveniently appear in a drop-down menu when you are entering permit actions. Because you define the number and types of actions, you control the level of process detail you can capture with GeoPlan to track permitting and inspections or any other type of approval process you define. Interactive Data Validation Keeps Your Data Clean Catch typing errors before they muddy your database. GeoPlan will alert you if the parcel number you assign to a new permit is invalid. You can also set up validation checks to insure that you have current license and insurance data on file for a contractor before you issue a permit. And everywhere in GeoPlan that you enter a street or subdivision name, valid choices are presented from which to choose, eliminating spelling errors and variations in road type abbreviations (AV or AVE) and plan-numbering schemes (Plan 2 or Plan II.)

With the powerful and flexible report design capabilities of Microsoft Access, your GeoPlan report templates can replicate the report forms now in use at your municipality. You have complete control in defining the types of actions you want to be able to track with GeoPlan. The Actions page lets you record multiple actions related to a single permit. Forced choice from a standardized master list of road and plan names eliminates invalid entries.

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