In this special report, Gordon Wignall, a barrister specialising in environmental law at 6 Pump Court, examines the environmental permit process and what to do if a permit application is taking a long ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in American City & County, which has merged with Smart Cities Dive to bring you expanded coverage of city innovation and local government. For the ...

Filling out paperwork for electrical permits and inspections and submitting a drawing to the local building department for plan review is already time consuming. Now, in order to be compliant with ...

A proposed rule to speed up administrative decision-making could have unintended consequences. But two of the proposed changes—a proposed reduction of the EAB’s scope of review and the elimination of ...

The City identified the site permit review process as an impediment to the production of housing and the City’s economic recovery. On August 15, 2022, the Permit Center, Planning Department (Planning), ...