Responsibilities
The Planning and Community Development Department is responsible for a wide array of activities and services to assist the community, including:

• Administering planning and platting requests, including:
  • Zoning permits
  • Variances
  • Conditional uses
  • Rezones
  • Platting actions
  • Zoning code amendments
  • Subdivision code amendments
• Being a community information and resource library
• Comprehensive plan management
• Economic development activities
  • Community grants
  • Commercial Passenger Vessel (CPV) funds
• Serving as staff liaison to the Planning Commission/Platting Board
• Borough lands management
• Floodplain management