Senior Planner - Housing & Zoning Strategy Lead

City of Costa Mesa; Costa Mesa (CA); Vor Ort; USD 117.000 - 156.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The City of Costa Mesa, known as the City of the Arts, invites qualified candidates for the Senior Planner position in the Community Development Department – Planning Division. This role leads current and advanced planning, supervises staff, and advises on complex development projects to advance housing and zoning initiatives.

Key responsibilities include managing complex planning projects, coordinating with departments, and presenting staff analyses to City Council and Planning Commission.

Qualifikationen

• The Senior Planner performs advanced journey-level professional planning work in current and advanced planning; acts as a subject matter expert in a complex area of urban planning; provides functional supervision and training to lower-level staff; and other work as required.
• Work involves considerable skill in research, analysis, presentation of data, writing, development analysis and oral presentations.
• This is the advanced journey-level class in the professional planner series. An incumbent exercises functional and technical supervision over journey-level planning staff.

Aufgaben

• Supervises, directs and coordinates a major segment of the City’s planning and zoning programs;
• Supervises special planning, zoning and environmental studies and complex development projects.
• Determines methods and procedures to be utilized in accomplishing assigned activities; coordinates activities with other sections, divisions or departments.
• Coordinates with and delegates to staff regarding General Plan consistency, Zoning Code, complex development projects.
• Directs, coordinates, reviews and participates in the work of professional and technical staff in data collection, analyses, plan formulation and implementation of a wide variety of planning and zoning programs.
• Participates in the selection of professional, technical and administrative support personnel and their orientation, training and performance evaluations; plans, organizes, and supervises the work of planning staff; coaches and motivates personnel; assists in the development and implementation of staff training programs and plans; recommends employee recognition and discipline.
• Acts as technical advisor to subordinate personnel in solving difficult assignments, and in reviewing objectives, techniques of execution, recommendations and resultant findings and determining General Plan and Zoning Code consistency.
• Assists management in developing, planning and implementing department goals, objectives and priorities; recommends changes to departmental programs, policies and procedures.
• Meets with developers, engineers, property owners, contractors and other individuals to discuss, advise, explain processes and suggest improvements regarding potential projects, pre-applications, development applications, feasibility analysis, conceptual development plans and code interpretation.
• Prepares, reviews and presents staff reports, technical studies, special projects, and presentations for City Council, Planning Commission, and other boards and commissions.
• Performs plan checks for zoning compliance and evaluates development sites to make recommendations for issuance of ministerial and discretionary permits, and to determine level of environmental review and consistency with the General Plan.
• Reads, analyzes and critiques constructions plans for zoning compliance, and coordinates review by other City departments.
• Makes recommendations on planning applications submitted for discretionary review, including development permits, use permits, variances, tract subdivision maps, master plans and other zoning applications.
• Responds to and resolves sensitive and difficult inquiries, complaints, and requests for information from property owners, business owners and the public regarding development proposals.

Jobbeschreibung

The City of Costa Mesa, known as the City of the Arts, invites qualified candidates for the Senior Planner position in the Community Development Department – Planning Division. This role leads current and advanced planning, supervises staff, and advises on complex development projects to advance housing and zoning initiatives.

Key responsibilities include managing complex planning projects, coordinating with departments, and presenting staff analyses to City Council and Planning Commission.