The PLUS system will supersede all other land use records
Fairfax County’s land use systems will partially shut down from Friday, Oct. 21, to Monday morning on Oct. 31, when the new Permitting and Land Use System (PLUS) becomes fully operational.
PLUS is a central online platform for creating and submitting permit applications online, paying fees, tracking the status of applications, and receiving electronic notifications.
Bill Hicks, director of Land Development Services, and his colleagues gave a presentation on PLUS to the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use Policy Committee on Oct. 4.
Customers will use the PLUS portal to complete their zoning, building, permitting, and other land development processes, submit complaints, and complete environmental health requirements.
PLUS incorporates all records from FIDO (permits and building inspections), PAWS (site and land disturbance records), Project Dox (plans and drawings), and S12K (site inspections).
During the Oct. 21-31 outage, PLUS and Project Dox will be unavailable, while FIDO and PAWS will be in read-only mode.
Customers will not be able to submit new applications, view submitted applications, schedule inspections, make payments, or upload plan documents during that period.
The transition to PLUS started in October 2020. The fourth and final implementation of PLUS will be completed on Oct. 31.
Many records (permits and other applications) are already active in PLUS. On Oct. 31 over 100 additional records will be available for customers seeking building and other land development-related permits.
The outage will affect legacy systems within Land Development Services, Planning and Development, Code Compliance, Environmental Health, and the Office of the Fire Marshal.
For several weeks after Oct. 31, data will still be migrating, and the processing of records might be affected.
Land Development Services has scheduled several upcoming webinars on PLUS:
- Sneak Peek Site Records in PLUS – Oct. 12, 11:30 a.m.-noon.
- Submitting Plans through Plus – Oct. 19, 1-2 p.m.
- Get Ready to Go Live in PLUS – Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- PLUS Basics 101 – Nov. 2, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
