Planning

Helping communities build and grow safely with zoning, planning, plan review and approval, complaint management, and code enforcement automation.

Improve community quality, promote economic growth, and protect resident welfare with Accela Planning software

Zoning, site plan reviews and issuing land use entitlements can be time consuming with manual or semi-automated processes and workarounds. Accela’s Civic Application for Planning fast-tracks community development by automating these processes.

Through an online portal, residents can submit proposals, check for status updates and pay outstanding fees. Planners can easily manage high volumes of information and route documents for review and approval; ensuring a quick turnaround for developers and project owners.

Introduction to the Civic Application for Planning

Benefits

Speed plan reviews, zoning and rezoning, conditional use permitting, land use entitlements, and variance requests with automated processes to promote economic growth and faster growing communities.

Streamline processes for collaborating on planning applications, and access project documentation like site plans, proposals, applications and requests with a few easy clicks for total land management.

Share plan and code data with building department personnel to arm them with the right information to begin and persist in the permitting process.

Automate the inspection and enforcement of planning codes to ensure growth plans are adhered to and communities develop as intended.

Features

Online Resident Portal

Enable residents to conduct zoning research, submit proposals, verify status updates and pay fees from the convenience of a home, office or job site to reduce in-person visits and phone inquiries.
Built-in reporting

Deliver administrators, managers and planning commissions or boards critical insight to better understand agency performance, uncover bottlenecks, and establish efficiencies.
Automated push notifications

Easily notify project owners, city council members, the general public, and press for public hearings, reviews, and feedback.
Platform-wide integrations

APIs, SDKs, and open data allow developers to integrate with existing software solutions to meet the unique needs of any agency.
GIS Mapping

Easily produce interactive maps and visualizations, making planning and code enforcement data easy to track, manage, and understand.
Electronic document review

Mark-up, comment, review, and approve plans simultaneously leveraging systems like ePermitHub, Adobe, e-PlanSoft, ProjectDox, OnBase, DigEplan, and Bluebeam, and more to perform parallel plan reviews with version control.
Mobile

Role-based apps allow inspectors and code enforcement officers to access documents and information, real-time in the field, increasing efficiencies.
Process automation

Automatically assign and track tasks such as plan reviews with their associated documentation to keep the most complex processes running smoothly.
Code enforcement

Ensure public compliance with city code and regulation by managing complaints and violations to achieve resolution quickly and efficiently.

Online Resident Portal

Enable residents to conduct zoning research, submit proposals, verify status updates and pay fees from the convenience of a home, office or job site to reduce in-person visits and phone inquiries.

Built-in reporting

Deliver administrators, managers and planning commissions or boards critical insight to better understand agency performance, uncover bottlenecks, and establish efficiencies.

Automated push notifications

Easily notify project owners, city council members, the general public, and press for public hearings, reviews, and feedback.

Platform-wide integrations

APIs, SDKs, and open data allow developers to integrate with existing software solutions to meet the unique needs of any agency.

GIS Mapping

Easily produce interactive maps and visualizations, making planning and code enforcement data easy to track, manage, and understand.

architect and construction manager reviewing building plans

Electronic document review

Mark-up, comment, review, and approve plans simultaneously leveraging systems like ePermitHub, Adobe, e-PlanSoft, ProjectDox, OnBase, DigEplan, and Bluebeam, and more to perform parallel plan reviews with version control.