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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, and simplified processes and enhanced customer service. City staff will provide an overview of Streamline Sacramento and receive input from Council on the progress and future steps for development process improvements.
www.cityofsacramento.gov/streamlinesacramento
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PolicyConsiderations
Policy Considerations: Streamline Sacramento aligns with the Mayor’s and City Council’s priority to streamline development and increase housing opportunities. Streamline Sacramento furthers the Council-adopted 8-year housing strategy (2021-2029 Housing Element) policy:
H-1.3 Reduce Time and Expense of Building Permit Process. The City shall continually strive to streamline and simplify the building permit process using best practices from other cities to improve aspects of the process, including coordination with departments, consistency, and timeliness, to make the development experience as efficient and certain as possible.
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EconomicImpacts
Economic Impacts: Construction of housing and other development is vital for the local economy by creating construction and professional sector jobs and adding to the local tax base.
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EnvironmentalConsiderations
Environmental Considerations: This informational update is an administrative activity and is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), per Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).
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Sustainability
Sustainability: A sustainable community includes housing for current and future households for all income levels.
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Commission/Committee Action
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
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RationaleforRecommendation
Rationale for Recommendation: Although around 3,000 new housing units are constructed each year, additional housing needs to be built to meet the demand. The City of Sacramento has a Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) target from the State to construct approximately 5,700 new housing units each year. Streamline Sacramento is a cross-departmental effort to identify and implement internal processes that speed up approval times and reduce the cost of housing construction.
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FinancialConsiderations
Financial Considerations: Not applicable.
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LocalBusinessEnterprise
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
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