Zoning Power Tool Spotlight: Fee Calculator
A great fee calculator to determine exactly what it will cost to submit applications for development approvals and permits. Calculate accurate fees for a schedule of licenses, inspections, rental charges, penalties and other fees to establish a reliable budget for any project.
Easy-to-Use Tools for Right-Sizing Drive-Thru Parking and Stacking Requirements
Drive-thrus like Taco Bell Defy need to determine the appropriate amount of parking spaces and stacking room required to ensure efficient site design. enCodePlus offers tools like tables, graphics and calculators to help articulate and calculate requirements for parking and stacking.
Flexible Codification Technology & Service Options
enCodePlus codification technology gives you codification options that allow you to choose self codification, full-service codification or a hybrid – entirely based on your unique needs.
Zoning Power Tool Spotlight: Gross and Net Floor-Area Calculator
The amount of floor area affects the leasable area of a nonresidential building and the size of home that may be constructed in a residential district. In both instances, the character of development is driven, in part, by the scale and bulk of the building(s). These calculations are critical for engineers and architects to design the building and site, for owners and investors to calibrate their pro-formas, and for tenants and residents to meet their space and mortgage or lease payments.
Project Launch Guides: Marketing Support for Citizen Education
Publishing an integrated, accessible and useful comprehensive plan or zoning ordinance is a powerful step toward modernizing planning practices. enCodePlus provides Project Launch Guides to help support clients’ efforts to market these projects and to educate citizens about how to use it.
Zoning Power Tool Spotlight: Development Yield Calculator
The enCodePlus Development Yield Calculator is an essential tool for real estate development. It saves time and expense and provides clarity for property owners, investors, bankers, realtors, developers and their engineers. enCodePlus development calculators dynamically render accurate results based on easy-to-update and manage input variables. They intelligently generate definitive requirements, together with all associated notes, clarifications and hyperlinked cross references to the applicable standards.
Zoning Power Tool Spotlight: Bufferyard Calculator
enCodePlus has created a collection of completely customizable development calculators, calibrated to the unique standards and requirements of each community. They simplify and streamline the process undertaken by developers, property and business owners and design professionals countless times each year.
Q&A: Planning and Zoning Practices for Better Affordability and Equity
A conversation with planning and zoning industry veteran Bret C. Keast, AICP. We sat down with BRET C. KEAST, AICP, president and CEO of Kendig Keast Collaborative and its subsidiary, enCodePlus, to discuss his thoughts on zoning reform: planning and zoning practices for better affordability and equity.
Customized Development Standards Calculators
enCodePlus has created a collection of completely customizable development calculators, calibrated to the unique standards and requirements of each community. They simplify and streamline the process undertaken by developers, property and business owners and design professionals countless times each year.
enCodePlus Adds Powerful Navigation Feature To Web-Based Platform for Plans and Zoning Ordinances
enCodePlus, the most advanced online planning and zoning software available in the United States, has recently launched Site Navigator, a new tool that organizes plans and zoning ordinances for easy access by the public.
How To Budget for a Plan or Code Update
Learn from the experts how to create a rock-solid budget for a plan or code update.
Upgrade Feature Spotlight: Custom Indexing
Save time & eliminate searching through multiple resources for documents and relevant information. With enCodePlus, pull it all together with a click!
How To Codify Form-Based Codes, Design Guidelines & Other Complex Documents
Modernize your systems and codify form-based codes with ease!
Now with enCodePlus, you can easily can build unique page designs and layouts to accommodate FBCs and other graphics-intensive documents in fully editable, web-based formats.
Zoning Navigator: A Tool for Organizing County and Municipal Zoning Ordinances
Organize city and municipal zoning ordinances for easy navigation by any user with our new Zoning Navigator tool. Read on to learn more!
ECP Insider: January 2022
The news-brief roundup for local government insiders, managers, planners, and administrators. Learn how to better manage codes and ordinances to transform planning and zoning processes.
Standard Feature Spotlight: Ordinance Archives
The enCodePlus platform offers a powerful package of standard features, including ordinance archives and more! Read now to learn more about using Ordinance Archives to create a complete record of amendments.
Publish More, Pay Less with the Leader in Online Plan & Code Publishing Companies
The more you publish on enCodePlus, the cheaper it becomes. It’s true! When you migrate your zoning ordinance, stormwater or flood regulations, subdivision regulations, form-based code, and comprehensive and special area plans…or anything else!…the more pages you upload, the cheaper they get.
4 Powerful Ways to Modernize Your Zoning Tool Kit
Creating and amending paper-based or PDF ordinances doesn’t cut it anymore. Why? Ordinances are challenging to write, cumbersome to update, difficult to distribute and a headache to manage. Here are 4 ways enCodePlus can help modernize your zoning tool kit and take your zoning ordinance to the next level.
Facilitate Collaborative Editing to Build Better Plans, Codes and By-Laws
Effective tools that support collaborative editing among team members are essential. Secure access to shared resources, collaboration among geographically widespread colleagues and consultants, and real-time self-publishing capabilities mean that local governments and consultants can continue to conduct business as usual – even when business is anything but usual.
Littleton, CO, Generates Public Engagement to Create Next-Level ULUC
In 2020 the city council of Littleton, CO, began building its new Unified Land-Use Code (ULUC). City leadership understood the value of public buy-in and was committed to generating public participation with the project. The goal was an engaging, easy-to-use and easy-to-manage online ULUC that addressed the concerns of the community with transparency and clarity.