By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
Early and frequent interaction with municipal planning staff is the key to making sure plan reviews and project approvals happen as quickly and efficiently as possible.
The theme of engagement and communication was the most frequently touched upon in this week’s BEX Leading Market Series presentation: Expediting Project Success: Mastering Municipal Approvals, held Wednesday at SkySong – The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. The event was a rare joint offering presented by BEX Companies and the Phoenix Metro Chapter of AIA.
The panel consisted of:
- Moderator Shawn Swisher, Senior Associate, Jones Studio;
- Joshua Bednarek, Planning and Development Director, City of Phoenix;
- Brian Craig, Development Services Director, City of Buckeye;
- Michael Clack, Building Official, City of Scottsdale, and
- Ryan Levesque, Deputy Community Development Director – Planning, City of Tempe.
The amount of time and number of revisions necessary to get projects through the review and approval processes have been a point of frustration for many in the development community for quite some time. That stress has only increased in the high-volume post-pandemic era.
