"As local governments face mounting pressure to streamline the review process for residential projects, a wave of AI-driven reforms is revealing how modern tools can shave days or weeks off approvals, potentially speeding up housing development. For 15-plus years, pressure has been growing on a shrinking, aging municipal development workforce to carry a heavier, more complex regulatory load. The result has been a de facto national underinvestment in permitting/inspection capacity, measured in tens of billions of dollars in missing labor and delayed construction value."
"Hernando County, FL, a suburban county north of Tampa, experienced extensive damage during Hurricane Helene last year. As a result, local officials faced a surge in permit applications from residents and developers eager to rebuild. To process these applications quickly, the county partnered with Swiftbuild.ai's SwiftGov application. The platform, tailored to each municipality's requirements, reviews lengthy application documents to ensure compliance with building codes and zoning standards."
"It automates many of the tedious tasks associated with the initial zoning review process, such as reviewing landscaping requirements and measuring setbacks. Florida law mandates that municipalities determine the status and confirm or identify deficiencies in land use applications within 30 days, a tall task for a hurricane-worn county facing a surge in applications. SwiftGov helped Hernando County officials provide feedback to applicants in 2 days on average, compared with the 30 days it took before adopting the platform."
Local governments face mounting pressure to streamline residential project reviews while an aging municipal development workforce struggles with increasing regulatory complexity. Underinvestment in permitting and inspection capacity has created tens of billions in missing labor and delayed construction value. City, county, and state agencies are increasingly adopting AI to automate review and permitting tasks and to issue rapid permits after disasters. Hernando County, Florida, used Swiftbuild.ai's SwiftGov to handle a hurricane-driven surge in applications. SwiftGov reviews lengthy documents, enforces code and zoning standards, automates setback and landscaping checks, and reduced average zoning feedback from 30 days to about two days.
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