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How cities can maximize the post-COVID short-term rental boom
With travel bans and wide-spread stay-at-home mandates, it may come as little surprise that the short-term rental market took a significant hit in 2020. In…
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Calling Accela’s Most Innovative Customers for Accelarate 2021 Trendsetter Awards
This fall, Accela will welcome hundreds of state and local government leaders, product experts and industry changemakers to its annual govtech conference, Accelarate. For the…
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The 5 Must-Haves When Replacing Your Legacy Planning, Permitting and Licensing System
Residents and business owners experience seamless and intuitive digital retail and service interactions— like from Amazon and Uber—as the standard, and they expect the same…
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Customer Spotlight: High Point, N.C. Leverages SaaS to Improve Planning and Development
In High Point, N.C., a longtime hub of the U.S. furniture-making industry, city officials needed a better way to engage with developers, service citizens and…
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Powering Through Pain Points to Protect Public Health
Trying to explain what the field of environmental health is to people on the outside can feel like speaking a different language. People often think,…
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Building Safety Month: Tips to Safeguard Your Community
Building codes can seem frustrating. They demand building plan approvals, collaboration with city planning and building departments and they create a chain of checkups and…
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Trailblaze the Uncharted Territory of Cannabis Regulation
How often do you take a large black market, flip a switch and turn it into a highly regulated one? When Colorado legalized retail sales…
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Don’t Miss Accelarate, the Premier Govtech Event of 2019
In 2019, digital transformation has accelerated across the public sector. For state, county and city government agencies, the challenges of providing secure services,…
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