Mayor’s Monday Mailbag – Aug. 22, 2022 – What's Changed with the New Design of the City's Development Projects Webpage?

Welcome to the Mayor’s Monday Mailbag, an initiative Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor’s Office launched to share weekly answers to questions from the public we’ve received through our main email inbox at mayor@burlington.ca or the Mayor’s social media platforms.At the end of the month, we publish a roundup of those most pressing questions we’ve received in the weeks prior.Mayor’s Monday Mailbag – Aug. 22, 2022QUESTION:“The City's website was recently enhanced -- what's changed with the new design of the Development Projects webpage?”ANSWER:With the newly enhanced and redesigned City of Burlington website, there's now also a new way to interact with the development projects webpage -- burlington.ca/developmentprojectsThe development projects pages have been designed as news feeds to allow an enhanced way to search -- by address or search by application status -- and by indicating at the top of the application webpage the date that the page was last updated. Also, this new design provides residents the ability to subscribe to any ward-specific application updates when a new application in that ward has been added.Each ward feed can be subscribed to for updates by visiting subscribe.burlington.caPlease note that we are still in the process of updating these pages and configuring the City of Burlington website -- dealing with hiccups we've encountered and that residents have contacted us about. If you encounter something that doesn't seem right when you're visiting burlington.ca or any of the services' pages, please contact our Service Burlington desk at city@burlington.caWhen it comes to website design, some pages -- like the development projects pages -- can’t be fully completed before the new website goes live (in a staging\testing environment), so they need to be done on the live website, instead.We are in the process of bringing over and adding the supporting documents for development applications -- this is a extensive process as there are almost 60 application pages with, at times, more than 20 large documents for each application. So, if you don't find what you're looking for right away, we ask that you please be patient as City staff work diligently to get all the webpages up-to-date.In the meantime, if you require specific documents related to a specific development application, please reach out to the City Planner on file (their contact information can be found on the webpage) and they will be able to assist.We appreciate your patience as we work on implementing these user enhancements to our development application webpages.

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