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Overview
The City of McAllen Planning Department guides and manages the growth of the City and its environment through policies, decisions and regulations adopted by the Mayor and City Commission. The Planning Department implements these guidelines through planning documents such as Foresight McAllen: A Growth Management Guide, development codes and ordinances such as zoning, subdivision, landscaping, parking, and signs, and other planning documents. The Department is a division of Urban Development, which includes the Health and Building Permits and Inspections Departments. Together they work to maintain a desirable quality of life, and to promote a positive community environment through orderly growth that is clean, healthy, and safe.
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Daily functions of the Planning Department include coordinating and processing development projects with annexation, subdivision, rezoning and conditional use permits, site plan and building permit reviews, inspections of development sites and miscellaneous structures or uses, investigation complaints through code enforcement, issuance of violation citations, land use surveillance in the extraterritorial jurisdiction, processing of various applications, and preparations and support for meetings of the Planning and Zoning Commission, Zoning Board of Adjustments and Appeals and the Building Board of Adjustments and Appeals.
Staffing includes, planning professionals certified by the American Institute of Certified Planers (AICP), current, advance and neighborhood planning activities, technical positions in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) activities, Certified Code Enforcement Officers, and clerical support.
On going and special projects include a zoning study for the northern most part of the City, developing a Historic Preservation program, planning for the Heart of the City, maintaining thoroughfare plans in cooperation with the County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and coordination with neighboring cities and the County Planning Department.
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