Community Development Director

Position Summary

The Community Development Director is responsible for administering and coordinating the City of Iowa Colony’s planning, zoning, subdivision, and land development functions. This position plays a key role in supporting the City’s continued growth by ensuring development is consistent with the City’s Comprehensive Plan, zoning regulations, subdivision requirements, development standards, and applicable local and state regulations.

The Community Development Director serves as a primary resource for City leadership, developers, property owners, residents, consultants, and other stakeholders regarding planning and development matters. The position also manages the administrative functions of the Planning and Zoning Commission, including coordinating meetings, preparing agendas and supporting materials, presenting planning and zoning matters, maintaining records, and facilitating communication between the Commission, City staff, applicants, and the City Council.

The Community Development Director also provides day-to-day leadership and supervision for assigned Community Development Department staff, including the Permit Coordinator and Clerk position(s). The Administrator is responsible for coordinating workloads, establishing expectations, providing training and guidance, evaluating performance, and ensuring efficient and customer-focused delivery of permitting and development services.

The position requires significant municipal experience, sound professional judgment, strong customer-service skills, and the ability to effectively manage multiple development projects and priorities in a rapidly growing community.

• Administers the City's zoning, subdivision, land development, and planning regulations and assists with the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan and other adopted development plans.
• Reviews zoning applications, plats, site plans, development proposals, planned development requests, special use permits, variances, and other land-use applications for compliance with City requirements.
• Coordinates the review of development applications with applicable City departments, engineers, consultants, utility providers, and other governmental or regulatory agencies.
• Provides professional planning recommendations and technical assistance regarding zoning, subdivision, development, and land-use matters.
• Conducts research and prepares reports, recommendations, presentations, maps, development summaries, and other materials related to planning and zoning matters.
• Assists applicants with understanding City development processes, application requirements, timelines, and applicable ordinances.
• Coordinates pre-development meetings and serves as a primary point of contact for developers, engineers, property owners, and other applicants throughout the development review process.
• Reviews and interprets City ordinances, zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, development agreements, and other applicable requirements.
• Identifies opportunities to improve development processes, procedures, customer service, and interdepartmental coordination.
• Assists with updates to the Comprehensive Plan, zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance, development standards, and other planning-related policies and regulations.
• Monitors development activity and emerging land-use issues and provides information and recommendations to City management.

• Manages and coordinates the administrative functions of the City's Planning and Zoning Commission.
• Serves as the primary staff liaison to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
• Coordinates Planning and Zoning Commission meeting schedules, agendas, Final date to receive…