Senior Planner

What will you do?

• Working in a team environment to develop land use planning policies and recommendations to help guide the physical development of the City.
• Research best practices in land use planning that encourages, social, environmental, and economic sustainability, including analyzing land uses, growth trends, patterns, and constraints.
• Presentation of policies, bylaws, special studies, or best practices to senior members of Administration, municipal committees or working groups, or City Council as required.
• Processing subdivisions, redistricting, outline plans, area structure plans, and amendments to statutory plans.
• Receiving and reviewing applications for accuracy and conformance to application requirements and to all relevant legislation, statutory plans, bylaws, and policies.
• Processing applications from submission, approval, committee and/or council presentation, and registration as applicable; including preparing conditions of approval for subdivision applications.
• Preparing, administering, and enforcing development agreements and inspecting developments for completion of agreement conditions.
• Liaise and coordinate with local and regional organizations, groups, agencies, and government bodies on land use planning issues and activities including inter-municipal referrals.
• Preparing legal documents including caveats, restrictive covenants, right-of-way agreements, and encroachment agreements.
• Provide professional planning advice to the development industry, the public, the functional area, the City’s Subdivision Authority and the organization.
• Creation of proposals for funding as needed.