Responsibilities
The Planning Department is responsible for a wide array of activities and services to assist the community, including:
- Allotting environmental permits for municipal projects
- Administering planning and zoning, including:
- Conditional uses
- Variances and exceptions
- Zoning maps
- Zoning reviews
- Being a community information and resource library
- Building and construction plan reviews, permitting, and inspections.
- Enforcing and abating building and zoning code violations.
- Handling business registrations for commercial businesses, home occupations, and itinerant vendors.
- Mapping all elements of the community from land to streets to addresses to infrastructure.
- Regulating subdivisions and platting.
- Serving as staff liaison department to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Management Responsibilities
The Planning Department is also responsible for managing:
- City lands, including land sales, land leases, and other generally allowed uses on city-owned public property
- Comprehensive Plan
- Flood zones
- Grants
- Hazard Mitigation Plan
- Projects
- Permanent property records for all property within the city limits
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