{"id":4735,"date":"2021-11-30T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:26:30","slug":"queens-adding-staff-to-expedite-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2021\/11\/30\/queens-adding-staff-to-expedite-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens adding staff to expedite permits"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Workers

\u00a0Photo Ed Halverson<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is looking to speed up the building process.<\/p>\n

At their last meeting, council decided to add another planner to the department to clear up a backlog and allow permits to be issued more quickly going forward.<\/p>\n

Mayor Darlene Norman says the municipality is seeing a 90 percent increase in permit applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to speed things up,\u201d said Norman. \u201cWhen you have a large commercial development or even someone needing to replace their roof or to put a small addition on. When they\u2019re waiting six and seven weeks to have their permits processed, that is a long time wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norman says landing a planner could be a challenge as the Region of Queens isn\u2019t the only municipal unit looking to add to their planning staff.<\/p>\n

She says the Town of Lunenburg has posted a job ad for a planner and Halifax is looking to hire three.<\/p>\n

Norman is hopeful the quality of life in Queens will attract qualified applicants.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessionals are widely sought so we\u2019re going to spread our net wide,\u201d said Norman. \u201cThe Region of Queens is a great place to live. Anyone that is looking for great cultural life, natural attributes, closeness to Halifax, Yarmouth, Annapolis, we have it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norman says they\u2019re looking bring a new planner on board as soon as they can.<\/p>\n

E-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Region of Queens is looking to speed up the building process. At their last meeting, council decided to add another planner to the department to clear up a backlog and allow permits to be issued more quickly going forward. Mayor Darlene Norman says the municipality is seeing a 90 percent increase in permit applications. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[488,79,487,24],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-building-permits","tag-darlene-norman","tag-planning","tag-region-of-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}