Services provided by the Planning Department are as follows:

Advance Planning:

• Maintain the Comprehensive General Plan
• Process General Plan Amendments
• Process Zoning Map Amendments
• Process Zoning Text Amendments
• Review Affordable Housing Compliance
• Participation in Transportation Planning
• Prepare Specific Plans and Special Studies
• Process Environmental Documentation

• • – Negative Declarations
  • – Mitigated Negative Declarations
  • – Environmental Impact Reports
  • – NEPA Documentation
  
  

• Floodplain Administration
• Maintain Census/Demographics/Population Information
• Process Local Coastal Program Amendments
• Environmental Board Staffing
• Design Review Board Staffing
• Coordinate Zoning Map/General Plan Map maintenance and production
• Zoning Counter Staffing

Current Planning:

• Processes applications for:

• Coastal Development Permits
• Conditional Use Permits
• Entitlement Plan Amendments
• Preliminary Plan Reviews
• Tentative Tract Maps
• Variances (Including the Flood Plain Variance)
• Annexation Requests
• Administer Precise Plan of Street Alignments
• Process Lot Line Adjustments 
• Issue Sign Code Exceptions
• Issue Temporary Use Permits 
• Process Tentative Parcel Maps 
• Issue Address Changes
• CC&R Reviews
• Process Certificate of Compliances
• Process Final Maps
• Issue Limited Sign Permits
• Issue Temporary Sign Permits
• Issue Temporary Sales/Event Permits
• Issue Animal Permits

· Zoning Counter Staffing