Planning

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 nuisance and code violation
• 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
• Coastal zone
• Comprehensive Plan
• Flood zones
• Grants
• Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Projects
• Permanent property records for all property within the city limits

Resources

• Planning Department Staff - View contact information for the department staff members.