Integrated Mapping Tools

• Advanced Search Capabilities: Easily locate land parcels using surface parcel numbers, legal land descriptions (QS/LSD/Plan/Block/Lot), or precise GPS coordinates.

• Dynamic Layer Visibility: Effortlessly manage the visibility of multiple data layers, including cadastral layers, asset overlays, zoning districts, and development history, all integrated into a cohesive visual framework.

• Detailed Cadastral Data: Access the most current cadastral data available across Saskatchewan, ensuring accurate and reliable information for informed decision-making.

• Aerial Imagery Integration: Toggle seamlessly to aerial views, offering a clear, visual perspective of the landscape to simplify property assessment and planning.

Development History and Visual Impact

• Toggle Development Layers by Year: Visualize how developments evolve over time, adjusting visibility based on application dates to highlight specific periods of interest.

• Cumulative Impact Analysis: Observe the long-term effects of developments on community growth and infrastructure.

• Community Insights at a Glance: Understand how strategic planning shapes your community over years, enhancing informed decision-making.

Community Asset Tracking

• Enhanced Asset Layer Visualization: Toggle through layers representing assets like signs, culverts, and roads, each with distinct symbology, allowing for intuitive identification.

• Integrated Mapping for Deeper Insights: Analyze development and asset layers simultaneously to uncover relationships and trends, enabling data-driven planning decisions.

• Detailed Asset Information at a Click: Select any asset to reveal details such as condition, cost, and maintenance history, facilitating decision-making with lifecycle insights.

• Precise Asset Positioning: Zoom into asset layers for accurate location tracking, providing a comprehensive view of your infrastructure.

Optimized Job Workflows

• Streamlined Job Data Entry: Easily input and manage details for various job types, including development permits, subdivisions, consolidations, and appeals—improving workflow efficiency by reducing repeated data entry and administrative burden.

• Comprehensive Documentation: Fill in key fields like land use type, bylaw compliance, lot dimensions, permit conditions, and many more, allowing for faster processing and improved consistency in documentation.

• Stakeholder Information: Capture details about adjacent landowners, referral agencies, and title interests, ensuring thorough documentation and promoting transparency for both municipalities and ratepayers.

• Keyword-Based Categorization: Assign specific keywords to categorize jobs, enabling advanced filtering and analytics for better decision-making and reporting, accelerating task completion and improving accountability.

Development Activity Summary

• In-Depth Job Reporting: Gain a complete overview of development activities within your community by utilizing customizable filters for job type, keywords, date ranges, land descriptions, zoning, job statuses, and permit years.

• Development Permit Summaries: View aggregated data on job types, permit years, and keywords, offering a high-level snapshot of development trends.

• Job Status Highlighting: View a compiled list of job statuses for review, allowing for informed discussions with council.

• Extensive Keyword Tracking: Leverage a broad keyword list to capture various aspects of community development, effectively providing detailed tracking and analysis of your data.

• Exportable Data: Effortlessly export job reports into Excel for further analysis, sharing, or record-keeping.

Effortless Report Generation

• Customizable and Time-Saving Templates: Access a variety of pre-designed templates, tailored to specific job types, minimizing manual effort while producing consistent and accurate finalized reports.

• One-Click Simplicity: Easily generate summaries and letters with a single click, pulling data from custom fields to quickly produce complete, ready-to-use documents.

• Detailed Output: Receive fully polished reports that include all the required fields from job creation, ensuring that no vital data is left out. Perfect for both internal use and stakeholder sharing, these reports contain everything entered into the system.

• Guided Reminders: Templates feature helpful yellow placeholders, offering planners and staff quick reminders about permitting processes and workflows, guaranteeing accuracy and consistency.

Role-Based Collaboration and Control

• Integrated Data Accessibility: Access connected data layers from different municipal departments, maintaining consistency and reliability across all roles.

• Customizable Role Permissions: System access can be fine-tuned to match user roles, with configurable permissions that grant or limit access to specific features, job types, and reports, enhancing departmental security and precision.

• Multi-User System Access: Support concurrent use by multiple team members, facilitating smooth coordination between administrators, planning and development officers, and the rest of your team within a shared environment.

• Departmental Data Integration: Share crucial information and send notifications seamlessly between departments, keeping data consistently accurate and up-to-date throughout the system.

Background

As a Saskatchewan-based company specializing in community planning solutions, we recognized the need for a comprehensive software platform to streamline development permitting and asset management processes. After successfully implementing our software internally to process development permits and track assets, we decided to open it up for clients, primarily municipalities, to use.

Challenge

Municipalities often face challenges in managing development permits efficiently and effectively. Manual processes and disparate systems can lead to delays, errors, and increased administrative burden. Additionally, asset management can be complex and time-consuming without the right tools in place.

Solution

Our community planning software provides a robust solution to address these challenges. With powerful mapping capabilities, intuitive development permitting workflows, and centralized asset management features, our software empowers municipalities to streamline their planning processes and improve operational efficiency.

Implementation

Internally, we integrated our software into our workflow for processing development permits and tracking assets. The transition was smooth, thanks to the user-friendly interface and comprehensive support provided by our team. As we experienced firsthand the benefits of our software, we were confident in its potential to transform community planning processes for our clients.

Result

Since implementing our software internally:

• Development permit processing time has decreased by 30%, leading to faster project approvals and consistent reporting. Decreases planning costs by 20%, by reducing duplication of data entry and increasing sharing between parties.

• Asset management has become more efficient, with real-time tracking and maintenance scheduling reducing downtime and operational costs.

• Our team has saved valuable time and resources previously spent on manual data entry and coordination tasks.

Client Rollout

Encouraged by our success, we are excited to offer our software to municipalities as a solution to their community planning needs. By opening it up for clients to use, we aim to empower municipalities across Canada and beyond to streamline their planning processes, save time and money, and drive positive outcomes for their communities.

Conclusion

Our experience using our community planning software internally has demonstrated its effectiveness in streamlining development permitting and asset management processes. We are confident that municipalities will benefit from its features and capabilities, and we look forward to partnering with them to achieve their planning objectives.

If you're interested in learning more about how our software can benefit your municipality, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to support you every step of the way.