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Hagen: Good things come to those who wait. Some of you have heard this presentation before but tonight's presentation's actually going to be different; a slide show. This is the first time we are presenting this slide show and we're in the process of making some changes to the Pleasantonpermits.com that haven't been officially rolled out yet, but you guys are the first committee that's actually going to see some of this. So this is definitely different than what you would have seen last time and hopefully it's exciting. There's a benefit for waiting, but as a little bit of background, some of the work plan items the Community Development Department is working on are the zoning code update which you heard the last time as well as the DSP parking strategy, the DSP update, and last but not least, we're going to be talking tonight about Pleasantonpermits.com. Pleasantonpermits.com came out of our zoning code update and the Council's goal was to provide clarity and ease of use for businesses, permitting process, and things like that. It's a way to make everything more business - friendly and get a lot of our processes and different links that we have all located in one place and one on -line easy portal everybody can access. So this is something you have not seen, even though you saw this presentation. Pleasantonpermits.com - -right now if you go to it, it's basically just a narrative and has a bunch of text on it, but this is what it's going to look like shortly. We actually decided to hire a graphic designer so we created these new user - friendly graphics. These are all of the different links that we're now going to have in Pleasantonpermits.com. This is going to be our one -stop shop for business, zoning, and permitting needs. As we continue on, this is just the beginning of our ideas and our overall structure with this one -stop portal, but right now we are very excited for this, as you can see it right now and how it's going to look and be user - friendly. One of the first links on there is the permit and status of inspection link. This is something we have currently available on our website but is not used right now. We haven't advertised it. It's been on there for a while but it's our citizen access so anytime you have a building permit in the City of Pleasanton right now, you can actually go on- line and check the status of your permit. You can go online and schedule inspections. You can check your neighbor as to whether they have a permit. You can just go and check by address. This is a very user - friendly tool. We're trying to get this out to a lot of our contractors in the City, a lot of our homeowners that are doing homeowner /builder type applications, and so forth. So this is going to be our permit status and inspections link. This is zoning check. It's part of our Pleasantonpermits.com and our overall zoning update. We partnered with a company called OpenCounter to help us develop two new online tools that are going to help with our zoning. Basically, this is going to simplify business site selection throughout the City. As some of you know right now, we have a lot of PUD's in the City. Each PUD has its own specific list of permitted uses. Some refer back to straight zones like the CS or the C zones, but a lot of them are very site specific and are very limited. So if you want to open up, say a doggie daycare, you can call the City and ask where in the city you could open. And as a planner I can't answer that question. I can tell you in a straight zone where you should go, but I can't tell you all PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 14, 2016 Page 15 of 22