Bridgeport moving to paperless online permitting
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Construction on the new Windward Commons mixed income housing development on the site of the old Marina Village Public Housing complex in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, September 30, 2020.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT Connecticut’s largest municipality is trying to go paperless when it comes to permitting, and it cannot happen soon enough for local contractors and construction labor leaders.
Willie McBride of WC McBride Electric said that change would not just make local government more efficient, but his own business.
“Just the resources of having someone to go to City Hall to wait in line to pull a permit, whereas we could just go on a computer to do it,” McBride said Friday. “Definitely it would be beneficial to the smaller contractors with limited resources.”