Accounts Spotlight: Placer County, CA
Portals: Zoning, Business, Residential Portals available at https://permitguide.placer.ca.gov/
Timeline: December 17, 2018 to April 12, 2019.
Notably…Placer County is one of OpenCounter’s first engagements with a county jurisdiction. In addition to covering the cities of Auburn, Colfax, Lincoln, Roseville, Rocklin, and Loomis, the County also includes well-known ski resorts such as Homewood, NorthStar, Alpine Medows, and Squaw Valley, which are part of the Tahoe Basin.
Although located within Placer County, development in the Tahoe Basin area is administered by a different agency, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), and governed by a separate set of regulations (the Tahoe Area Regional Plan).
The Tahoe Area Regional Plan is a regulatory document separate from the Placer County municipal code. The plan includes over 80 individual zoning sub-areas, each with differing land use permissions and development standards. The OpenCounter team normalized regulations between the two regulations in order to represent land use permissions across the two areas under one use code selection. Building and planning permits were also configured to direct Tahoe users to submit their applications at the Tahoe planning office rather than the Auburn planning office.
The end result was a configuration of two separate jurisdictions in one portal. Prior to this configuration the Tahoe Area Regional Plan was a cumbersome 6 part pdf, each part containing over 100 pages. Now the plan is easily searchable through OpenCounter; users can easily access links to each specific section of the document relevant to their parcels zoning district and development standards making development easier than ever.
County Sponsor: Community Development Resource Agency
