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Supervisors probe Planning Department reorganization and zoning-administrator reporting change
Summary
Director Richard Hillis defended a reorganization that creates a Community Equity division and shifts the Zoning Administrator into Current Planning for knowledge-sharing. Supervisors raised concerns about optics and ZA independence; the committee asked for vacancy-level staffing data and continued the matter for follow-up.
The Board’s Land Use and Transportation Committee held a detailed review of the Planning Department’s recent internal reorganization, including the creation of a Community Equity division and a structural change that places the Zoning Administrator (ZA) under Current Planning rather than as a direct dotted-line to the Planning Director.
Director Richard Hillis said the changes were intended to consolidate expertise, improve staff development and embed racial and social equity into long-range planning work. "The division is charged with the development and implementation of our racial and social equity action plan,"…
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