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