Lindsay Municipal Code § 2.16 Community Development Director

1. There is established the office of community development director of the city. The position of community development director shall be appointed by the city manager.
2. The community development director shall have responsibility for and supervise all economic development, housing and housing rehabilitation, enterprise zone, and redevelopment activities of the city and the city redevelopment agency, under the city manager's direction.

(Ord. 474 § 2, 1996)

1. The community development director shall be able to perform complex technical and professional planning work; to evaluate data, identify planning alternatives, and pursue projects to completion.
2. The community development director shall have knowledge of research methods, drafting, sketching and illustrating; teamwork concept in preparation and completion of unit projects.
3. The community development director shall be able to collect, analyze and apply socioeconomic data to a variety of planning problems; work with people in helping develop solutions to planning problems; do research, write reports; analyze problems and arrive at solutions, and develop commitment to social and environmental needs.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall be directly responsible to and under the direction of the city manager.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall be responsible for the preparation, review, maintenance of the comprehensive city general master plan, including the receipt of and collection of any and all data, details, correspondence, maps, mapping and general analysis thereof, and the community development director shall from time to time advise the planning commission and all appropriate city departments concerning the status thereof, any changes therein required by law or suggested by good and orderly planning.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall be primarily responsible for planning projection and evaluation for the city and shall from time to time suggest and recommend policy and policy changes to the city manager, planning commission or city council, as the case may be.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall from time to time, as may be necessary and appropriate, formulate and design recommendations for the institution of and the effectuating of the general masterplan, and shall present the formulation designs and plans to the city manager, planning commission or city council, as the case may be.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall attend all meetings of the county association of governments and shall be and keep advised of its proceedings, plans, programs, recommendations and regulations, and shall cooperate in all of the matters with the city councilmember representative appointed to the board, and from time to time report to the city manager, planning commission or city council upon all matters affecting or appertaining to the city presented to, discussed or acted upon by the county association of governments.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall from time to time confer with the county planning commission and various neighboring city planning agencies to assist in keeping informed and updated with respect to all matters concerning planning and any legislation statutes or ordinances or case litigation appertaining to planning, and from time to time shall confer with the city attorney concerning such enactment or litigation and shall inform appropriate city agencies and departments and officers thereof.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall be familiar with the terms and provisions of the zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinance of the city, and with any and all statutory enactments of the state wherein the particular field of planning may be preempted and shall resort to the office of the city attorney for assistance therewith, and shall be responsible from time to time for suggesting and recommending changes for updating the ordinances and for complementing the ordinances with the environmental resources element of the city as required by law.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall receive and process applications for use permits, variances, zone changes, lot splits, and all applications for subdivisions, letters of intent, parcel maps, both tentative and final, and the plans therefor, and any and all applications for annexation of lands to the city, and any and all applications for planned unit developments and the maps, plans and site plans therefor. All of the foregoing shall be initially filed with the community development director.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director may require the filing of as many copies of applications, maps, plans and specifications, letters of intent and other documents that may be from time to time deemed necessary to orderly processing of such applications within the city and county and state offices affected by the applications.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall transmit copies of all applications, maps, plans, specifications and letters of intent connected therewith to such city departments as may be affected thereby including the city manager, city engineer, building inspector, public works director, fire chief, police chief and city attorney, and in the case of subdivisions, annexations or planned unit developments, the county planning commission, the Lindsay Unified School District, State Highway Commission, the utility companies servicing the area affected and the California Real Estate Commission, if deemed necessary by the community development director.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

All departments affected by any of the matters set forth in Section 2.16.120 shall furnish reports and findings to the community development director, and he shall set the time and date for consideration of such reports by the city planning commission in accordance with the procedures set forth in the subdivision and/or zoning ordinances of the city, and shall make recommendations concerning them.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

Any and all correspondence appertaining to any of the matters shall be directed to or emanate from the office of the community development director, and any and all records and files concerning them shall be kept and maintained by the community development director or pursuant to his direction and under his control, and the community development director shall be primarily responsible for circulation of all reports, correspondence and information concerning the foregoing matters, and for furnishing the city planning commission and/or the city council with any and all data necessary and pertinent for a proper consideration of the matter.

Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

It shall be the primary responsibility of the community development director to undertake and insure the orderly processing of all subdivision, zoning and annexation matters through the appropriate city departments and commissions, and the collection of the fees and charges therefor as may be from time to time set by the city council. The fees shall immediately be transmitted to the city clerk for proper deposit.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall prepare and file, in conjunction with the city attorney, all annexation proceedings with the local agency formation commission of the county, and shall appear at hearings on them.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The community development director shall be responsible, in addition to the above duties, for the review of any and all environmental impact reports filed with the city; the community development director shall, if the reports appear to be sufficient and satisfactory execute them as found to be sufficient and satisfactory and shall thereupon transmit them to the city council for final approval thereof.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

The city council may by resolution from time to time adopted, establish a fee schedule for the filing of various applications for use permits, variances, zone changes, annexations, subdivision plans and map and inspection fees connected therewith and planned unit developments.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)

This chapter shall be interpreted and applied in conjunction with the existing zoning and subdivision ordinances of the city, and the term "community development director" shall be substituted in for the words "city clerk" or "secretary of the planning commission" wherein each of the ordinances it appears appropriate and consistent with the intent of this chapter.

(Ord. 474 § 3 (part), 1996)