Fairfax County is converting all of its land use permitting, plan review, inspections, and complaint systems to the Planning and Land Use System (PLUS) this fall. During the transition, all online application and review systems, including PLUS, FIDO, ProjectDox and PAWS will be unavailable, beginning Friday, October 21 at 4:30 until Monday, October 31. PLUS will replace all legacy systems (FIDO, ProjectDox and PAWS) and be available beginning Monday, October 31, 2022.
Your help is needed to ensure this process goes as smoothly as possible for all projects. Please keep the following in mind as we get closer to October 21:
Before the Outage:
- Consider starting your new applications sufficiently ahead of the outage so your projects are not delayed.
- Consider closing any building or site projects nearing completion by scheduling final inspections sufficiently ahead of the outage.
- Or, if possible, start your project in the PLUS system on October 31.
During the Outage (Oct. 21 - Oct. 31):
- PLUS will be unavailable.
- You will not be able to apply for records (permits and other applications), make payments, have inspections, or upload plans during this time.
- The legacy systems, FIDO and PAWS, will be in a read-only mode.
- Continuity plans will be in place for each agency, which will allow limited operations.
- This system outage will not impact staff availability to answer questions via email, telephone, virtual meetings or in person. Please check agency webpages for contact information.
After the Outage (Oct. 31):
- After October 31, supporting data including plan sheets and attached documents from ProjectDox will still be migrating into PLUS. The processing and review of applications may be delayed.
- PLUS will be the central platform for Fairfax County customers to complete their zoning, building, permitting or other land development processes, as well as submitting complaints to Department of Code Compliance.
More details will be available as we progress toward the launch date. Information is updated at https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/plan2build/plus