Engineering a Vision - Tomorrows Tools for Today’s City Planners
How one of Canada’s fastest growing municipalities is automating the development approval process to better enable city planners, city council and the development community.
A few years ago, then Director of Planning and Land Development services at the City of Brampton, John Corbett (currently commissioner Planning, Design and Development) communicated a vision. His vision was to move from a paper based development approval process to an automated process, but not just any automated process, he wanted an automated process that was GIS enabled, and web accessible for external agencies who are intimately in the development approval process. The system also had to be map based and include functionality for report generation to ensure full utility for planning staff.
Well today Mr. Corbett’s vision has taken a large step forward to being fulfilled. On April 7, 2007 the City of Brampton launched PlanTrak, a new development tracking and approval management system. This system has been developed by MTI, Munirom Technologies www.munirom.com. The PlanTrak system utilizes the latest information systems technologies and business rules/management systems to automate the entire approval process.
Key to the systems implementation was the integration with the City of Brampton’s internationally recognized award winning GIS system. The city has been very focussed on developing and maintaining its geographic information, it is one of the city’s core data sets. The city developed its first GIS Strategic plan in 2000, which guided the implementation of systems and resources until 2005. The city has subsequently developed the next phase of the GIS strategy to take information systems at the city to the next level over the next 5 years. The City of Brampton regularly hosts delegations from cities and regions in Ontario, from across Canada and around the world. Recently an enquiry has come from Australia, officials from the City of Victoria want to understand what we have done to provide our GIS and Planning information on the web. See - www.bramptonmaps.ca.
With a robust GIS system in place the city staff from Planning and Information Technology, in partnership with the vendor set their sites on the goal of a world-class information system. We have hit the mark and have reached the goal. The system has a “real-time” interface to the GIS system allowing city planners to not only look up relevant GIS information, most importantly, you can navigate
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