Atlanta To Expand New ‘Express’ Building Permit Process
Building a new deck or fire pit should be easier now than it used to be, according to the city of Atlanta, thanks to new procedures in place for building permit applications.
Planning Commissioner Tim Keane says that in June, it took an average of 42 minutes for customers to get through the city’s new “express permit” application process for minor building projects. That’s down from 44 minutes in May, the month the new procedures rolled out. The goal, he says, is 30 minutes.
Under the former system, Keane says it often took several days:
“Before, when you would go to the office — even for a fence, a tiny thing — you would go to one place to do your intake, a different place for your zoning review, a different place for your arborist’s review—I mean, you might go to four or five different offices to try to get that permit!”
Under the new “one-stop” process, those authorities all operate from a single office.
Atlanta will roll out similar procedures for larger residential and light commercial builders this week, and for major commercial developers later this year.
Avondale Estates and DeKalb County have also made recent changes to streamline their building permit application processes.
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