Architect, Environmental & Urban Planning

Shape the Built Environment. Guide Quality Growth. Serve the Community.

The City is seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking City Architect to provide architectural leadership, expert plan review, and urban design guidance for a growing and evolving community. This senior-level professional serves as the City’s principal authority on commercial construction, architectural design, and ADA compliance, helping ensure that development—both public and private—reflects adopted plans, development regulations, and long-range community goals.

The City Architect plays a vital role in shaping the City’s built environment. From reviewing complex development proposals to advising staff, applicants, boards, and elected officials, this position promotes high-quality design, sound planning, and accessible, code-compliant development. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, professional judgment, and a collaborative mindset to support thoughtful growth and redevelopment.

• Serve as the City’s senior architectural authority and lead reviewer for complex commercial and mixed-use development projects.

• Review and approve construction documents for vertical construction, including buildings, accessory structures, retaining walls, decks, pools, and related site improvements.

• Ensure plans are complete, accurate, constructible, and compliant with applicable building codes, development regulations, adopted plans, and design standards.

• Utilize electronic plan review systems (such as Bluebeam and Open Gov) to annotate plans, identify deficiencies, and clearly communicate required revisions to applicants.

• Coordinate with planning, engineering, building, fire, and other review disciplines to support an efficient and integrated permit review process.

• Provide final architectural approval prior to permit issuance.

• Perform professional planning work supporting current planning, long-range planning, and urban design initiatives.

• Interpret and apply federal, state, county, and local codes, ordinances, policies, and adopted plans.

• Contribute to updates of the City’s Comprehensive Plan, Development Code, design standards, and related policy documents.

• Identify community development challenges and opportunities and develop planning and design strategies that promote quality growth, redevelopment, and efficient land use.

• Provide architectural and urban design guidance to staff, applicants, advisory boards, and elected officials.

• Conduct site visits and field inspections, as needed, to evaluate development proposals and verify compliance with approved plans.

• Provide architectural review and oversight for municipal facilities and capital improvement projects, as assigned.

• Support architectural programming, design oversight, and project management for City capital projects.

• Manage and coordinate external design consultants, including reviewing proposals, contracts, RFIs, and project submittals.

• Monitor project budgets, schedules, invoices, and coordination with Finance and funding partners.

• Participate in project bidding, construction administration, and final inspections.

• Prepare and present clear, well-reasoned reports and recommendations to boards, commissions, and elected officials.

• Attend and participate in public meetings, including evening meetings as required.

• Provide high-quality customer service and maintain professional, effective communication with City staff, applicants, design professionals, developers, and the public.

• Facilitate meetings and assist in resolving development and design-related issues.

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Urban…