Created in partnership by the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, California Department of Technology, California Public Utilities Commission, and California Emerging Technology Fund
Given the importance of permitting, its role in deploying broadband infrastructure, and how permitting will affect the ability at all levels of government to capitalize on federal funding, the State has collaborated to create guidance on how local governments can support middle-mile and last-mile broadband deployment in their communities.
The California Local Permitting Playbook offers strategies designed to enable communities to prepare for broadband investment—recognizing that an unprecedented amount of state and federal funding has been allocated to expanding broadband infrastructure in California, and that local government permitting and planning staffs have varying degrees of experience with and knowledge of broadband deployment.
The contents of this document also reflect the comments and input of local government stakeholders, whose participation in the process informed the strategies, smart practices, and actions identified below. This playbook is intended as a tool—not a prescriptive set of recommendations—and will be revised and expanded to capture new input from the stakeholder community
