Planning & Development Review · a Civic Mesa product

Never let a development approval lapse by operation of law again.

Civic Mesa Planning & Development Review is a complete review system your office can run on its own: subdivision, plat, and site applications move through a defined pipeline from intake to recording, and a built-in statutory shot-clock counts down every decision deadline so nothing auto-approves out from under you. Planners work a live, at-risk dashboard instead of a wall calendar, and the whole backlog stays visible and defensible. Acquire it by itself — or turn it on beside the rest of the Civic Mesa suite. Either way, it's built to be the best product in its category.

Why it's worth acquiring

Never miss a statutory decision deadline again.

Run your subdivision, plat, and development review as tracked projects, each moving through a defined pipeline from intake to recording. A built-in statutory shot-clock counts down every decision deadline, so approvals never lapse by operation of law and the backlog stays visible and defensible.

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Civic Mesa planning shot-clock dashboard — active projects with days remaining and auto-approval risk at a glance.
  • Statutory shot-clock

    Completeness, decision, and resubmittal clocks show days remaining and flag imminent auto-approval.

  • At-risk dashboard

    Active projects, at-risk and auto-approval risk, decisions YTD, and average review days at a glance.

  • Guided review pipeline

    Received → Conditions Set → Dept review → Governing Body → Decided → Recorded → Closed.

  • Templates & custom workflows

    Seed milestones and conditions from a template, or define your own stage pipelines with day targets.

  • Conditions that lock

    Each condition cites a code or statute, and the list locks permanently once the decision is recorded.

  • Month calendar

    Deadlines, hearings, milestones, and task due dates plotted across all active projects.

Planning staff, development-review coordinators, and the clerk's office
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Civic Mesa development-review project — the statutory shot-clock counting down beside recorded conditions.
Inside a single project

Every deadline, condition, and stage on one defensible file.

Open a project and the clock is right there — days remaining before completeness, decision, and resubmittal deadlines, with imminent auto-approvals flagged before they happen. Conditions cite the code they enforce, and once the decision is recorded the list locks for the record.

  • The shot-clock on the project. Completeness, decision, and resubmittal clocks count down in plain sight, flagging any deadline about to trip auto-approval.
  • A guided pipeline. Received → Conditions Set → Dept review → Governing Body → Decided → Recorded → Closed — every stage stamped so the backlog is never a mystery.
  • Conditions that lock. Each condition cites a code or statute, and the list locks permanently once the decision is recorded — a file that holds up on appeal.
Who it's for

Right-sized for any local government — not just big counties.

Planning & Development Review scales from a single reviewer approving a handful of plats a year to a metro planning office running dozens of projects at once. Whatever your volume, the statutory clock is the same, and every deadline is watched for you.

Counties

Track subdivision, plat, and site review across unincorporated land, coordinate department reviews and governing-body hearings, and hand the clerk a recorded, defensible decision on every project.

Cities & towns

Run planning-commission and council review with a shot-clock that keeps growth moving — and an at-risk dashboard that shows leadership exactly where the backlog sits.

Villages & small municipalities

A part-time planner gets a real review system instead of a wall calendar — no IT department required, and every reviewer is included in the price.

Special districts & authorities

Planning, redevelopment, and community-improvement authorities run their own review pipelines with the same statutory clocks and locking conditions.

Complete on its own · stronger together

A full product today. A platform when you're ready.

Buy Planning & Development Review by itself and run your whole review process on it. Add another Civic Mesa product later and it clicks in under the same umbrella — the same property, people, and map — with no migration and nothing re-keyed.

Flatannual rate — Planning is priced per module, not per seat
Unlimitedusers — every planner, reviewer, and clerk logs in at no extra cost
$0lock-in — export your projects and conditions any time, in open formats
Start with a pilot

See Planning & Development Review on your own jurisdiction.

Book a demo, then run a pilot on your real projects, statutory clocks, and branding — import from your current vendor, dry-run first, and evaluate on your own review pipeline. Flat per-module pricing with unlimited users, and your data stays portable, so there's no lock-in.