St. Louis has launched an online building permit portal allowing residents, contractors and developers to apply, upload plans ...

The streamlining has made it relatively fast to get housing projects approved, but San Francisco still lags behind comparable cities in the time it takes to obtain building permits.

In the last few years, San Francisco cut its new housing permit processing time in half, despite trailing U.S. cities like ...

San Francisco took longer to issue building permits for new housing projects than five other major cities, according to a recent survey from Jan. 1, 2024, to Aug. 12, 2025, conducted for the Board of ...

Bilal Mahmood wants to address the bottlenecks created by having five separate departments involved in issuing building ...

The city recently launched the first phase of an online permitting portal, reflecting a larger, nationwide gov tech trend. An official leading that effort tells what the city has learned so far.

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — Some St. Pete Beach residents have been waiting for months to get approval for permits to fix their homes after Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Doug Engle has lived in his St.

The Port Orchard City Council unanimously approved a resolution creating an artificial intelligence pilot program to help expedite the single-family residential building permit process at its Feb. 24 ...

Clermont County issued a record number of building permits in 2025, the third-consecutive annual record for the fast-growing ...