Document versioning issues exacerbated by the increasing need for textual edits sent Washington, DC, planning staff in search of a more tailored solution for regulation management. DC partnered with enCodePlus (ECP) in the winter of 2019 to migrate Title 11, Zoning, into an interactive format that would allow staff to make proposed edits and submit them to the public/stakeholder for comments without all the versioning issues typically created by using MS Word files.
Before using the ECP platform, the DC staff would manually update a Text Amendments table listing key markers such as order numbers, descriptions, and publication dates. By leveraging the ECP software, new text amendments are now automatically tracked when footnotes are added to a section. These footnote fields are pulled in to populate a new, fully-automated Text Amendments table that provides a link to the official order (PDF) and the section(s) affected by the order. This functionality paired with the document archiving feature makes amendment and historical research accessible not only to DC staff but to the public as well.
Automatically archives and provides historical versions of code sections.
Automated email notice of published document updates.
Secure document storage and retrieval system. Search ordinances by number, date or keyword.
Optimized mobile and desktop document reading with navigation, printing, linking.
