City Working on New Development Review Process

City of Loveland planning staff received approval from former City Manager Don Williams to hire a consultant to help the department streamline and improve its development review process. According to Planner Bob Paulsen, the main criticisms have been that the process is too slow, lacks integration and needs to be repeatable, consistent and dependable. Paulsen says the new system will be “cutting-edge” allowing electronic submissions and designed to make it easier for developers to understand and move through the process. He estimates that the new process will be in place by January 2011.