Salary: $56,452.24 - $70,565.30 Annually
Location : Huntersville, NC
Job Type: Full time
Job Number: 202300092
Department: PLANNING
Opening Date: 04/23/2024
Job Description
Performs reasonably complex professional work in the Planning Department reviewing site plans throughout each phase of development; assists the project manager and is a liaison between the Town and the developer and others involved including the public as needed. Ensures that the public as well as other entities have an understanding of the planning processes as they affect the development of the Town. Work is performed under the supervision of the Principal Planner.
Essential Duties of the Position
The following duties are those considered most essential to the position. This does not preclude the delegation of other duties considered as necessary by management to successfully complete an assignment or project.
- Take a lead role in reviewing site plans and the general and conditional district rezoning's; major, minor and exempt subdivision plans and plats for compliance with land use plans, ordinances, regulations and standards.
- Educates all stakeholders involved in the planning and review process.
- Assists in managing planning efforts for developers and consulting firms for approval of major residential and commercial developments; conducts field research through site visitation.
- Interprets code and ordinance language for developers; assists in negotiations to achieve desired standards, including the creation of the site plan and landscaping designs through plan review working with senior level staff.
- Assists in coordinating planning activities with affected federal, state, town, regional and private agencies; assists in coordinating with other governmental jurisdictions on transportation, open space, zoning enforcement, stormwater regulations and related issues.
- Helps managing approval processes with various review agencies.
- Assists in the creation and updates of zoning and subdivision checklists for code compliance.
- Serves as staff to the Town Board, Planning Board, and Board of Adjustments as needed; prepares and presents reports; maintains various files, documents, reports and records.
- Takes complaints and forwards them to appropriate personnel; provides conflict resolution, enforces ordinances with tact and firmness.
- Performs other duties as apparent or assigned.
Minimum Required Education and Experience Knowledge of the Town's zoning, land use, and other ordinances, plans and codes; skill in principles and practices of community and economic development and public sector planning; governmental laws, programs, and services pertinent to the community and economic development and planning processes; and, environmental and socioeconomic implications of the planning process; skill in the collection, analysis, and presentation of technical data and planning recommendations; and, conflict resolution, meeting facilitation, and public presentations; ability to enforce codes with firmness and tact; prepare comprehensive reports and studies; express ideas effectively in both oral and written formats; and, establish and maintain effective working relationships with community groups, federal, state, regional, Town officials, and the general public.
Bachelor's Degree with coursework in Planning, or related field, and three years' experience in public sector planning. Master's Degree in Planning or related field may be substituted for some experience.
Possession of an appropriate driver's license valid in the State of North Carolina.
Supplemental Information This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force; worker is frequently standing, walking, speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel and occasionally requires sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, use of measuring devices, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions; work is generally in a loud noise location.
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