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Riverside, Calif. Streamline Riverside is a City of Riverside initiated program to develop and implement new business practices to improve the City’s development review process and customer experience. The Streamline Riverside program is an ongoing program intended to build a culture of continual improvement within the City’s development review departments. The first phase of the program, completed this year, includes several significant accomplishments, including:

development review process. The guiding principles behind this effort include simplifying processes and procedures, reviewing our processes through the eyes of our customers, creating certainty, and facilitating the City’s General Plan and Specific Plan development goals to ensure an expedited review process, with a goal to expedite review within 30 days from submittal. The Streamline Riverside program supports the goals of the City’s Business Ready Riverside program, adopted in 2014, to “Right“ Size Regulations and Requirements. The Streamline Riverside program is an innovation and collaborative approach to the development review process that is not observed elsewhere in the Inland Southern California. The execution of the program includedmultiple stakeholders and community members and represents the best in community engagement and customer service. Lastly, as part of a continued effort to reduce barriers to development and encourage investment throughout

the City, under the guise of the “Lift the Lid” initiative, Riversidemade a number of changes to the Downtown Specific Plan in 2016 allowing more flexibility related to permitted uses and building design. In particular, the City made changes that now allow building heights for properties within certain areas to exceed themaximums established, provided that themaximumFloor Area Ratio is not exceeded and subject to the approval of a conditional use permit. The City alsomade changes to the way “Floor Area Ratio” is calculated to allowmore flexibility inmaximizing development on a site.

• Streamline Code Amendment • Creation of a Development Review Committee • Development Application Review Calendar

• UniformPlan Check Review Times • Optional Expedited Plan Check • One Stop Shop • Computronix

The Streamline Riverside program is intended to facilitate investment by removing obstacles at all levels of the

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