Cape Coral City Avolves

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA: The city of Cape Coral, Fla., would be attempting to enhance customer service and increase cost savings through an ongoing e-government program that will reduce turnaround time and costs associated with obtaining residential and commercial construction permits.

Avolve Software Corporation, developers of ProjectDox ePlan and collaboration software and a provider of ePlan solutions for cities, counties and states nationwide, shared that the city would deploy ProjectDox.

Avolve Software teamed with San Diego-based CRW Systems, makers of TRAKiT permit management software, to deploy an integrated permitting and plan approval system in Cape Coral. According to Loback, the new technology has the ability to serve multiple local government departments in diverse situations, such that it becomes a nucleus for a variety of city-specific programs, funneling information in a more streamlined fashion than the traditional, manual plan review process, says a press release.

Cape Coral’s move to e-plan submittal follows a trend started by other cities, counties and states across the nation currently utilizing ProjectDox and web-based technologies to manage complex internal processes and provide outward-facing tools to better serve constituents.

Built about 40 years ago by two land speculators, Cape Coral is 115 square miles and one of the fastest growing areas in Florida. With more than 160,000 residents, Cape Coral is the third largest Florida city by land mass and the 11th largest in population- statistics that point to the need to continually search for better ways to serve constituents.

The city, as per the press note, has been ranked as one of the Top 10 most technology-advanced cities in a 2008 Digital Cities Survey published by the Center for Digital Government.

The 2008 survey focused on the implementation and adoption of online service delivery, and the technology infrastructure and architecture that make the transformation to digital government possible.