Community Planning

Community Planning is a fee-based service provided to communities in which a professionally trained community planner confers with local planning commissions, boards of zoning appeals, and other local officials with respect to all phases of their comprehensive planning program. 

The primary functions of this service include attendance at all planning commission meetings, board of zoning appeals meetings, the preparation of key planning documents such as comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, annexation studies, and flood plain management regulations, and the review of subdivision plats, site plans, and rezoning requests.  

An important secondary role of the program is to assist communities with the creation and maintenance of key planning related maps and illustrations.  To efficiently provide such assistance, students from the University of Tennessee-Martin have been periodically utilized as part-time GIS technicians.  In this capacity the students are able to complete important mapping projects for the communities while also gaining valuable work experience for themselves.

Additional roles of the Community Planning Program include providing special census certifications for cities and counties and providing technical assistance and training, related to the National Flood Insurance Program.

Community Planning services are currently being provided to: Carroll County, Crockett County, Dyer County, Dresden, Humboldt, Huntingdon, Lake County, Martin, McKenzie, Medina, Obion, Trimble, and Union City.

For more information about Community Planning services please contact Donny Bunton.