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Solutions for Zoning Administrators

Discover cutting-edge software for effortless zoning administration

What if administering ordinances, form-based codes, design guidelines and other development guides and manuals were easier to explain and better understood by those using them?

NOW, THEY ARE!
  • Link all related standards and see them together in a separate viewer.
  • Animate and illustrate regulations in ways that make sense to users.
  • Augment digitized documents with customized menus, search and lookup tools and interactive mapping.
  • Create useful links to commonly used sections and tables.
  • Build a resource library in the cloud for quick reference.
  • Amend the regulations and codify and publish them in short order.
POWERFUL TOOLS FOR ZONING ADMINISTRATORS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Empower users to find what they need on their own and slash the time you spend advising development applicants, responding to telephone and email inquiries, and coordinating interdepartmental meetings and communications.

Make it easy to navigate from an ordinance to GIS maps and back, link plans and other reference documents, calculate development requirements and generate reports to quickly evaluate what standards apply.

With just a click, citizens, public officials, applicants and staff can find everything they need to more intelligently interact with the regulations and to test the viability of a project.

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What do clients say?

First and foremost, I am incredibly impressed with how enCodePlus improves the usability of the 1972 LCZO, and am confident this will be a genuine game-changer for everyone who uses it! Great stuff!

— Christopher M. Mohn, AICP - Deputy Zoning Administrator | Loudoun County, VA

Digital Zoning

Our codifier struggles to integrate the unique formatting, graphics or tables in our zoning ordinance.

Does enCodePlus have a better solution?

Solution

Yes! With enCodePlus, you can easily incorporate unique styling, tables, graphics, illustrations and layouts.
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Navigation Aids

Zoning documents are complex and difficult to understand.

How can we make them easy to navigate?

Solution

Be sure to check out the Zoning Navigator and Content Assembler. These are purpose-built tools to help conveniently locate, organize and consolidate relevant information.
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Modern Zoning Tools

Understanding zoning regulations and the effects they have on property is complicated.

How can we help our constituents better understand the requirements?

Solution

We've created special tools to help you modernize planning practices and make zoning as simple as possible. Click below to learn about customizable Development Calculators and Land Use Lookup Tools and more.
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Application Management

Submitting and tracking development applications can be difficult for both applicants and the staff tasked with reviewing them. Popular enterprise solutions are too expensive.

Does enCodePlus have an affordable alternative?

Solution

Our Apptrak+ application management system offers easy tracking and approval management without the heaviness and expense of most enterprise systems. Plus, you get long-term centralized storage of all related files.
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Research Aids

It is critical that our staff have complete and accurate information when it comes to drafting our ordinances and guidelines.

How can we help ensure they have the most up-to-date information possible to do their jobs well?

Solution

Our cutting-edge research tools power air-tight best practices research. The Definition Library ensures a shared understanding of key terms, while the Research Assistant displays sample ordinances from more than 3,500 jurisdictions across the country.
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GIS Integration

GIS tools open up countless opportunities when it comes to linking data to a map.

What else can we do with this amazing technology?

Solution

Integrate GIS map technology with the tools and features of enCodePlus to unlock incredible visualization capabilities and give rich context to zoning regulations and other documents.
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Special Features for Zoning Administrators

Embrace the latest technology and boost your customer satisfaction with enCodePlus’ zoning administration software. Now, administering ordinances, form-based codes, design guidelines and other development guides and manuals is effortless

What does that mean to you?

Empower Users

Free up your time by providing user-friendly tools that enable applicants, staff, citizens and officials to find exactly what they need.

Accurate Resources

Always-up-to-date, on-demand information supports reliable research and more intelligent decision-making.

 

Interactive, Web-Based Ordinances

Enliven the experience of using your ordinance with roll-over pop-up definitions, hyperlinked cross references, inline tables and illustrations, dynamically updated GIS, development calculators and interactive navigation.

Amendment Notification

Subscribers can receive automated, immediate email notification of adopted amendments. Interested citizens and applicants can stay informed about the latest rules and regulations.

Ordinance Drafting

Collaborate within and across departments to draft amendments and manage comments and edits. Maintain draft versions and document archives, and manipulate graphics and tables in an intuitive, web-based format. The workflow saves time and ensures accuracy.

Zoning & Development Tools

Navigate easily back and forth between the zoning ordinance and map. Utilize the Land Use Lookup Tool and Development Calculators to assemble all applicable requirements for a parcel, address or district. Explore ordinance history by address, adoption date or keyword. Access development agreements and PUD ordinances. Powerful, integrated resources are just a click away.

Enhance Public Information

Empower your citizens to find the exact zoning information they need to provide public input on proposed zoning actions. Add a Zoning Navigator to aid their search and organize the results.

Application Management

Streamline the zoning application process with online submission, payment, processing and tracking capabilities.

Improve communication with the applicant by providing automated email alerts at key points in the process.

Track all actions and communications from submission to approval, and maintain all project-related materials and plans.

Access links to agendas, minutes, applications and plans via GeoZone.

Solutions for Colleagues

Our goal was to create a tool that would serve the needs of every department in local government – one with best-in-class features that would support collaboration and communication. Take a look to see what we created for your colleagues.

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