MinutesePermits GIS Subcommittee Meeting

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 City of Lauderhill, Room 134

5581 W Oakland Park Blvd, Lauderhill, FL 33313

1. Introductions by Tom Dobbs

2. Presentation by Thuy Turner

a. Overview and demo of BC ePermits

b. Group discussion of how cities can currently view submitted applications

3. Tom Dobbs overview of GIS technology usage in development of ePermits

a. Good opportunity to show strength of GIS and integrate it into permitting agency permit

processes

b. Use of cloud technology and ArcGIS BLOB data storage

4. Discussion of goals:

a. Establish protocols and sizing for GIS system for ePermits

i. Needs further attention. Some municipalities store plans as PDFs and others as

TIFs due to file size issues

b. Define and develop GIS processing step requirements

i. This will need Python work and schema design

c. Identify and gather data layers for permitting jurisdictions, all data layers for location

determinations, and display of maps within ePermits interface

i. As an example, some cities have historic district boundaries requiring special

permit review

d. Implement mechanism for automated updates of all data layers to insure current data is

available

5. Subcommittee formed

6. GIS Subcommittee will meet once per month before Working Group Meetings

a. Subcommittee webpage: http://www.broward.org/ePermits/Pages/ePermits-Working-

Group-Committees.aspx

7. Next Meeting – October 30, 2013

8. Meeting adjourned at 3:45PM

Leigh Ammon954-519-1203lammon@broward.org

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Attendees*Vicki Morrow Broward County EPGMD

*Tom Dobbs Broward County EPGMD

*Leigh Ammon Broward County EPGMD

Thuy Turner Broward County EPGMD

*Joan Fletcher City of Lauderhill

*Angie Hein City of Hollywood

*Irene Degroot City of Davie

*John Shelton City of Margate

*Michele Lundeen ESRI

*Ivette Reyes City of Plantation

*Ian Wint City of Fort Lauderdale

*Ron Bartholf City of Coral Springs

Allesandro DiSciascio City of Hollywood

*Patrick Lockwitz City of Deerfield Beach

Jason Carlo Broward County Property Appraiser

Tracy Wynn City of Pompano Beach

Valerie Mahle City of Fort Lauderdale

Rollin Maycumber City of Fort Lauderdale

*Michelle Carter Seminole Tribe

* Subcommittee Members in Attendance