Planner
Job Description:
Position: Planner
Department: Community Development
Salary Range: Pay Band 3 – Salary Range $34,097- $61,373.
Definition: Under general supervision, the position of Planner performs professional work
in current and advanced public planning and zoning.
Summary & Scope of Responsibilities: The position devotes a significant amount of
time on routine administrative tasks. The Planner position also works closely with the
public, on a regular basis, to provide customer service, review plans, provide support to
boards and commissions and facilitates Town/Department planning initiatives.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to the Director of Community Development.
Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:
• Provide excellent, friendly, customer service to both internal and external
customers.
• Assist in the administration and implementation of the Colonial Beach
Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance, and the
Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act.
• Provide technical assistance and information to customers at the public counter as
well as by telephone and email on Town planning/zoning matters.
• Respond to and help resolve citizen issues and inquiries efficiently and effectively.
• Provide technical assistance and information to Town staff and the public in the
administration of specific planning program areas and/or ordinances.
• Prepare analytical staff reports to the Planning Commission, Board of Zoning
Appeals and the Town Council, as directed.
• Attends public meetings and makes presentations before the Planning
Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals, as directed.
• Plan check proposed development plans and subdivisions for zoning compliance
and permit issuance.
• Conduct zoning site inspections.
• Process permit applications and calculate appropriate fees.
• Collect, record, and summarize statistical and demographic information.
• Research and compile information on a variety of planning and zoning matters, as
directed.
• Participate in coordination of planning activities within the Town in addition to
outside agencies.
• Attend on-site and off-site planning and zoning meetings.
• Conduct site visits in the community to help investigate potential violations to the
Towns’ zoning/land-use regulations and/or project conditions of approval.
• Help resolve documented zoning violations.
• Assist the Community Development Department in digital and hard copy record
keeping.
• Perform routine office
