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Commissioner Balch: I think that's the most valuable part because one of the things that I've incurred is that you'll come in for a design review not realizing that you might need a building permit, right, and then that comes in after when you thought you understood the process up front and, you know, it changed. I know applicants don't appreciate that so knowing they have to go through all of the "x" departments or whatever, I think that's going to be just as helpful. So this is going to help ferret that out. Hagen: This is very comprehensive. It is a lot of work upfront. It asks a lot of questions about every single thing you're doing and you might think it's a lot, but really it is really to kind of answer all of those questions because at the counter, we answer what you ask and then we provide you with information we think you need to know, but there's so many different things. In planning we can only tell you about planning. Building can only tell you about building, so this is one of those things that brings it all together. This is one that it does not have that obviously if you've opened a business, sewer connection fees is something and school impact fees are two of the items the City cannot tell you over the counter. There's no real fee schedule for it. So it gives you information to contact the school district and then contact the City directly for sewer fees. So those are the two fees within here that we can't give you, but it does give you information up front to let you know that this could be important; that you need to contact both of these people up front. Commissioner Balch: So the sewer fees, is that just sanitary? What about the water connection and all of that? Hagen: The water connections are the straight fees so that is in here. Commissioner Balch: With recycled water connection as well? Hagen: Yes. Commissioner Balch: Oh nice. Commissioner Allen: And does this trigger any input into a draft business license or some of the applications somebody needs as well? Hagen: Yes. Right now it does have the ability. Once you fill all of this out and you submit it to the City, right now in OpenBusiness, you have to fill out a zoning certificate form. This will automatically populate a zoning certificate and send it to us so you don't have to do it by hand. The same thing —this communicates directly with our Accela program. Accela is our permitting program, so when you come in typically you fill out a hand application. Then we have to take your hand application and re -input it into the computer. Now, you input it in here. We can transfer that directly to Accela so you no longer have to fill out the hand application. As long as everything is online, it goes directly into here and we can transfer that to a PDF of the application. So it does save time. Commissioner Allen: Great, so time saved for the client and for you guys PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, September 14, 2016 Page 18 of 22