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In order to assist the Coordinator in maintaining open channels
of interdepartmental communication (discussed below), creating
an adaptive reuse contact in each department involved in project
review is key. Staff members selected for these contact positions
will hold other job titles, but each would be the first point of con-
tact for the Coordinator should questions come up about distinct
aspects of an application.

ii. Improve interdepartmental communication for
reviewing adaptive reuse project applications
In order to create an efficient adaptive reuse program, staff in each
of the Departments involved in reviewing adaptive reuse applica-
tions must commit to meeting about submitted projects to review
challenges the applicant has faced and creative solutions that can
be offered by each department to assist the applicant in receiving
design and permit approval while still meeting the objectives of
each department. While this meeting might not be required for
every adaptive reuse project, those that are more complicated
would benefit from an interdepartmental meeting to move to-
wards creative solutions faster. Upon initial application review and
individual meeting review, the Adaptive Reuse Coordinator should
determine whether the interdepartmental meeting would benefit
the project at hand.

When these meetings are determined necessary, those attending
the meeting could be the contact person for each department as
described above in the Coordinator recommendation, but should
also be the reviewers assigned to a project. These reviewers should
seek common solutions in the meeting and commit to performing
simultaneous review when feasible to expedite the review process.

iii. Establish a CPD “team” to assist with small scale project
review
To assist the Coordinator, consider creating a small team of CPD
staff that can participate in initial project review to determine
whether any problems with the application may arise. This process
of creating a team of reviewers should be similar to that currently
used by SDP review.

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