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Your community development team has the power to drive economic growth and improve quality of life for residents. But if you’re processing permits and licenses manually? It’s not just a slow, tedious process for you. It also stalls growth and frustrates residents and entrepreneurs.
When you digitize your processes with MCCi Community Development, community projects move forward without unnecessary delays. And residents gain easier access to essential services. By improving accessibility, reducing errors, and supporting sustainable practices, permitting software helps local governments build stronger communities.
Let’s explore six ways MCCi Community Development can benefit your community.
1. Speed Up Community Planning and Development
Slow permitting processes can delay community projects that range from building new parks to upgrading critical infrastructure.
With MCCi Community Development, you can process applications more quickly. That means essential community enhancements aren’t stuck in a bureaucratic backlog.
Permit applicants are often frustrated when their applications are denied due to minor errors or missing information. Our platform minimizes errors with automated checks like:
- Required fields
- Smart fields that display only the information needed (for example, if a contractor checks that a building doesn’t have a basement, they won’t see questions about basements)
- Form fields that require valid formats for dates, phone numbers, addresses, etc.
- Auto-populated fields for users who are logged in
These features help applicants submit complete and accurate information. And they’re less likely to get that frustrating rejection letter.
2. Give Your Local Economy a Boost
Thriving local economies are built on the success of small businesses and entrepreneurs. But complicated permitting and licensing processes confuse potential business owners and slow down economic growth.
By simplifying business licensing, MCCi Community Development encourages entrepreneurship and supports local job creation. When businesses can start operating sooner, they contribute to the community’s economic health. This creates a ripple effect that benefits everyone—from increased job opportunities to more vibrant local shopping and dining.
Plus, our software makes it easier to stay on top of license renewals. Not only do business owners get automated reminders, but it auto-populates most of the information on the renewal form. Applications can be completed in minutes rather than hours. This helps business owners avoid costly penalties and disruptions—and it means you need to send out fewer reminder letters and violation notices.
“We got hundreds of [business license] renewals the same day we sent out automated notices, which is the quickest turnaround we’ve ever had. Normally it would take a couple of weeks before we started seeing a big response.”
3. Make Services Accessible to Everyone
Everyone in your community needs to access government services, regardless of their physical abilities or technological skills. Traditional permitting processes often rely heavily on in-person visits and paperwork, which can be inaccessible for people with disabilities, older adults, or those without reliable transportation.
MCCi Community Development breaks down these barriers by offering an ADA-compliant online platform. Its user-friendly design includes features like screen reader compatibility and mobile-friendly access. That means more residents will find it easier to apply for permits and licenses.
4. Support Eco-Friendly Initiatives
Manual permitting and licensing systems often generate a lot of paper: forms, copies, planning documents, and physical records. Of course, this increases your carbon footprint. But it’s also more expensive. Paper documents are an estimated 206x more expensive to store than digital ones.
Our system helps local governments adopt more sustainable practices by digitizing the entire permitting process.
With MCCi Community Development, residents and businesses can submit applications, pay fees, and receive approvals entirely online. That means no more paper documents to print and store. It also cuts down on the carbon emissions associated with mailing and transporting physical forms.
5. Keep Communities Safer
Is your manual permitting or inspections process putting safety at risk? When everything is on paper, it’s easier to overlook critical safety checks due to human error. In MCCi Community Development, each inspection type comes with a built-in checklist that reduces the mental load and likelihood of errors.
With our solution, you can quickly identify and address potential safety issues in construction and business activities. Whether it’s ensuring that building permits comply with the latest safety codes or that businesses meet environmental health regulations, you can maintain high standards across the community. You’re not only protecting residents, but also building trust in your ability to safeguard public well-being.
Public safety makes your community a more attractive place to live, work, and do business.
6. Strengthen Community Resilience and Disaster Response
In a natural disaster, you need to move fast to aid recovery and rebuilding efforts. Paper permitting processes can become a bottleneck during emergencies. They can delay repairs and construction at a time when the community needs them most.
But with MCCi Community Development, you make your community more resilient by speeding up the permitting process for rebuilding and repairs.
Our streamlined approach allows you to prioritize and expedite permits related to disaster response, such as those needed for emergency shelters, infrastructure repairs, or temporary housing. By reducing bureaucratic hurdles, you can respond swiftly to crises and minimize the impact on residents. Ultimately, you’re helping them return to normalcy faster.
What’s Next?
You handle complex community needs every day. Now you can do it with smoother workflows that serve everyone better.
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