Guide to Submitting a Planning Application on Accela Citizen Access

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On this screen you are going to select yes or no for whether you are on the submittal schedule.

Please Note: Many types of planning applications (such as Site Plan Review (SPR))are accepted pursuant to dates on a submittal schedule. For those proposals, please old off on submitting your application unless you have been given the go-ahead from our department to submit. Applications will be processed in the order on our schedule. Contact CPP if you have any questions (303-441-3930 or Ask a Planner)

The submittal date is given to you by our department according to the submittal schedule.

On this screen, you will navigate to the site address section and enter the house number of the worksite and the first two letters of the street name. Click the search button.

Tip: Less is better! If the worksite address is “1234 Main Street” enter “1234” into the Street # field, and only enter “ma” into the street name field.

Verify and enter the contact information for the primary contact. The mailing address (not the project worksite) for the contact should be used.

Note: Address, phone number and email are required.

On this screen you are going to select yes or no for whether you are on the submittal schedule, if you are on the submittal schedule you will then enter your submittal date.

You are also going to select the type of planning application. If the type of planning application you wish to submit is not listed, choose Other.

Please Note: Many types of planning applications (such as Site Plan Review (SPR))are accepted pursuant to dates on a submittal schedule. For those proposals, please old off on submitting your application unless you have been given the go-ahead from our department to submit. Applications will be processed in the order on our schedule. Contact CPP if you have any questions (303-441-3930 or Ask a Planner)

The submittal date is given to you by our department according to the submittal schedule

On this screen you are going to add your documents, such as your plans. To begin uploading documents, click Add.

Tips:

• Be sure to include your filled out Planning Application Form, along with any required documents and plans.

• PDF files are the preferred format for documents and plans.

• Keep each PDF file that is uploaded to 50MB or less. Split into separate files if need- for example: Plans 1 of 2.PDF, Plans 2 of 2.PDF

A new box will appear, at the bottom of this box, click “Add a Document”.

A new dialog box will open, here you will navigate to where your documents are stored and select them.

Note: You may be able to select more than one document.

Click Open. (This dialog box may differ depending on your browser/computer you are using)

The documents that you have selected will then be shown with a progress bar. If you have additional documents to upload, click add a document and follow the previous steps.

Click Continue when you are done adding documents.

The documents you selected in the previous steps will then be shown on the screen with a description field below each document. In the description field, please enter a brief description for each of the documents.

When finished entering descriptions, click Upload Documents.

When the upload is finished, a green banner will then appear. The uploaded documents will be shown on the screen.

Click Continue Application.

Note: Large files will take longer to upload.