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Planning staff outlines workload, staffing changes and timetable for tobacco and school studies
Summary
Director Gibbons gave the committee a detailed update on planner turnover, training, daily workloads and the expected timetable for special studies including the tobacco regulations update and a school-use study; staff said the tobacco study will return to planning commission in May and council in June after state rule revisions.
Director of Planning Matthew Gibbons provided the Zoning and Planning Committee with a detailed briefing on department staffing, workloads and the status of multiple special studies, including the city’s upcoming tobacco-study update and a school-use review.
Gibbons told the committee the planning office experienced a wave of promotions and departures over the last two years and that staffing only recently stabilized. He said the department currently operates five full-time planners (with a sixth position under recruitment) and that new planners require roughly three months of training before taking on full responsibilities. He noted planners regularly balance public-facing work (walk-ins, phone calls, emails) and development reviews, and that the daily volume of…
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