Together, they issue over 50,000 permits each year. By April of 2001, San Jose's effort will consolidate all development review activities into one, comprehensive system. The project's goal is to enlist a core group of pilot cities in Silicon Valley. All of the pilot cities are implementing online permit tracking systems. Beyond that, each city focuses on a different aspect of smart permitting, for example e-commerce, wireless handheld devices, voice activitationactivation, and file management.
Simple permits can make up as much as fifty percent of a planning department's workload.
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