Denver (KDVR) – The mayor of Denver Mike Johnston issued his first executive order on Monday, when he established the allowance office to repair and simplify the permit in the city.
Mayor Johnston said in a statement on Monday: “To make housing more affordable and facilitate commercial work, we have to remove unnecessary obstacles and simplify the city’s operations so that the builders can spend less time with permits reviews, and more time to create high -quality building jobs that drive our economy,” Mayor Johnston said in a statement on Monday.
“Samah Denver’s office will take an immediate action that would restore Denver’s reputation as one of the best cities in the country to do commercial work, and to accomplish great things. By fixing our permits process, we will be able to build more housing at reasonable prices, and residents can reshape their homes more easily, and owners of exaggerated people can open more efficiently from their work.”
The establishment of DPO combines 300 employees responsible for permits scattered in seven sections in the city and “focusing on approvals while preserving safety interests and society,” according to Denver. DPO will be asked to respond to customer questions within two working days, and expand in the anti -declaring hours to 8 am to 4 pm from Monday to Friday, and he will be responsible for a New “one store” site.
The city wrote in a statement, “The expert staff will work as” the heroes of the project “who will lead the customer through each transmission, and provides a central contact point to give updates and answer questions and move in possible challenges.
Johnston said his goal is to get every statement of his sending within 180 days of his arrival in the city. If the DPO review is late, the permits student will receive an immediate resumption for 14 days to the Executive Committee. If this is not resolved within 30 days, the fees for the researcher’s request for a permit will be returned to $ 10,000.
The city said in a statement that DPO “will do economic activity” in Denver by destroying barriers in front of the population and developers who are trying to build housing or open companies inside the city.
“The office is the logical solution to make the government work better for every resident,” the city said in a statement. “This is a key to building more housing that residents can actually bear and create a new economic activity and jobs in our city.”
It is far from a new problem – in May 2024, Johnston held a question and answers about Redait and indicated that the city was working to accelerate the permit even at that time. On Monday, the city said that large -scale housing and commercial projects can face more than two years of delay while awaiting the approval of the site development plan.
DPO will start operations in mid -May, and the Deputy Executive Director of Planning and Development in the community has been appointed Jelly Julic as director of DPO. It will submit a report to the Chief of Staff of Mayor Jin Ridder.
Denver pointed out that the Community Planning and Development Agency achieved “a decrease of 37 % in the total time of the city’s possession of family/two -sided projects compared to 2023, in addition to a 30 % decrease in the number of days to complete the process of building/regions.”
Reducing the time of the construction permit review by 30 % of the mayor’s 2024 goals at the city level.