Loveland City Council has approved a new and improved development management platform. By a vote of 8 to 1, members OK’d a new technology fee on building permits that will generate enough revenue to pay annual maintenance costs and a new IT employee to support it. The Loveland Reporter Herald reports Loveland’s development division now uses an 18-year-old software system to manage construction and planning activities in the city, as well as licensing. But that aging system has a number of limitations and is inefficient for both city staff and the contractors, developers and residents who use it…