Senior City Planner

GENERAL SUMMARY The City of Lafayette is seeking an experienced and innovative city planning professional to join the City's planning team as a Senior City Planner.

Although the role will involve both current and long-range planning projects, the current focus is on ongoing development reviews.

This position will be responsible for reviewing a broad range of development applications and playing a key role in review and process improvements.

The Planning Division has an ambitious set of projects currently underway, including a Land Development Code update, area planning, new project tracking and permitting software, and implementation of the housing plan and the City's award-winning Legacy Lafayette Comprehensive Plan.

We are a small but very talented and dedicated group of professionals, and this position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity for an experienced planner with a wide variety of planning and urban design experience.

This key team member will also need to be an excellent communicator, well organized, customer and employee focused, have the curiosity and ability to identify solutions, and engage effectively on interdisciplinary teams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The following duties are illustrative only and are not intended to be all inclusive: Current Planning Conducts building permit reviews for compliance with planning approvals.

Reviews and processes sign permits.

Responds to citizens' requests for information and to inquiries from other governmental agencies and to professional inquiries.

Answers inquiries about zoning code, subdivision regulations, procedures for Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Adjustment hearings and all other current planning functions.

Utilizes a city-wide network project database that records all contacts, decisions, permits, and other pertinent information related to projects.

Maintains planning related files.

Host pre-application meetings with residents, business owners, and/or developers to discuss application processes and submittal requirements.

Attend and present at meetings of the Planning Commission, City Council, the Zoning Board of Adjustment or other boards and commissions.

Performs staff review of subdivisions, special uses, site plan and architectural reviews, landscape and lighting plans, etc.

Coordinates the review process, rezoning, or amendment process of project team members, reviews each team member's comments to determine consistencies and address potential problems, issues, and concerns, and resolves conflicts.

Works with a team of city personnel to review a customer's project or request, determines which permits, licenses, approvals, standards, guidelines, ordinances, rules, and regulations a customer needs to obtain for a project or request to move forward.

Works with customers to ensure plans and applications conform to applicable codes, rules, and regulations, the comprehensive plan, and other specialized city plans.

Assists in maintaining City's address data base and ma...