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Streamline Sacramento - An Overview of the City's 2025 Development Process Improvements Program
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FileID
File ID: 2025-01833
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Location
Location: Citywide
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Recommendation
Recommendation: Review, comment, and provide direction.
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Contact
Contact: Matt Hertel, AICP, Assistant Director, (916) 808-7158, mhertel@cityofsacramento.org; Mandy Holm, Program Specialist, (916) 808-8112, mholm@cityofsacramento.org; Community Development Department
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Presenter
Presenter: Matt Hertel, AICP, Assistant Director, (916) 808-7158, mhertel@cityofsacramento.org, Community Development Department
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Attachments
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Key Impacts and Significant Actions of Streamline Sacramento 2025
3-Streamline Sacramento Potential Actions Table (January 2026)
4-Streamline Sacramento 2025 Presentation
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Description/Analysis
IssueDetail
Issue Detail: Streamline Sacramento, a 2025 initiative launched by Mayor McCarty and Councilmember Pluckebaum, aims to increase the construction of housing and other development projects that strengthen the local economy. The initiative seeks to achieve this by enhancing the City's development approval process through a comprehensive and collaborative examination of all aspects of the building permit process. This customer-driven, cross-departmental effort focuses on everything from building permit application submittal and issuance, plan review, inspections, certificate of occupancy, and overall collaboration with internal and external stakeholders involved in the permit process. The Potential Actions Table (Attachment 3) reflects ideas from the development community, emphasizing consistency, timeliness, and efficiency.
Staff will highlight the key impacts and significant actions of Streamline Sacramento 2025 (Attachment 2). The four key impacts of Streamline Sacramento are: shortened approval timelines, increased ease of opening and expanding businesses, reduced cost of development...
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