July 12th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Jamie Tellier, Director of Community Planning and Nick Anastasopoulos, Director of Building Services and Chief Building official entertained the members of the Pipeline to Permit Standing Committee of Council
Tellier, who has a very engaging manor, started by saying: “we’re going to do something fun here if you actually allow me to. As of this morning, the database that we’ve talked about, the database that creates these charts behind the scenes is now live on our web page. So if you just give me a minute here to share my screen, I’m going to show you this, and it’ll start to answer a lot of the questions that we’ve had at previous meetings here. So bear with me for one second as I share my screen.
“I’ve taken you to the city of Burlington pipeline to permit web page. Okay, so anyone can access this, and as you scroll down the page, you’ll see the pipeline or permit self serve dashboard, okay? And then you have two options as well. There’s a desktop if you’re at your computer, and there’s also a mobile if you’re on your phone.
“But for today, we will look at the desktop version, since I’m using a computer, and when I click on this good it is showing up. Here it is.”
Tellier began explaining in great detail how the data base worked and what you could expect from it.
Link to the desk top version of the data base.
Link to the desktop version of the Pipeline to Permit data base
In a separate article to follow we will take you through what the data means and how it will be used to track the rate at which housing development is taking place.
For this article we have shown the two screens that people can work with. You of course need to link to the data base (link shown above) to interact.
At first blush and in terms of providing taxpayers with useful information this looks good. I need time to digest the output of the P2P process to see if the end results is more shovels digging holes.