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Planner I
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Seiu_Professional
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AZM28
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S14
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Salary
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$25.21
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$32.15
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$39.09
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Job Description
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Performs professional work in urban planning. Performs a variety of program or project planning activities which impact municipal development and include analyzing data and formulating and recommending plans and programs relevant to municipal conditions and needs. Employees are usually assigned to a particular planning subject area such as land use, transportation, urban design, growth management, public art, community/economic development, or historic preservation. Work is performed under the direction of a Planning Supervisor and reviewed through conferences, reports submitted, and results obtained.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: Performs professional work in urban planning. Performs a variety of program or project planning activities which impact municipal development and include analyzing data and formulating and recommending plans and programs relevant to municipal conditions and needs. Employees are usually assigned to a particular planning subject area such as land use, transportation, civil site and urban design, growth management, public art, community/economic development, or historic preservation. Work is performed under the direction of the Chief Plans Examiner in the Life Safety Division and reviewed through conferences, reports submitted, and results obtained.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration, Urban Planning, Architecture, or related field and six (6) months of experience in urban planning or related area; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Valid Florida Driver's License required within the time limit set by the hiring department. Master’s Degree in related field desired. Experience with CAD, GIS, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, or comparable design software preferred.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Public Administration, or related field and six (6) months of urban planning or related experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Valid Florida Driver's License required. Must obtain Florida Fire Inspector I Certification within six (6) months of employment.
PARKING: Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Public Administration, or related field and six (6) months of customer service, operations or planning experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Valid Florida Driver's License required.
Additional Qualifications for Promotion (Planner I to II):
Eighteen (18) months of experience as a Planner with the City of Orlando. Last performance evaluation must have resulted in an overall meets standards rating or better with no goal rating of less than meets standards. Promotions are not to be considered an automatic function of longevity and are subject to the review and authorization of the Supervisor/Manager.
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Responsibilities
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EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:
Note: The listed duties are only illustrative and are not intended to describe every function that may be performed by this job class. The omission of specific statements does not preclude management from assigning specific duties not listed if such duties are a logical assignment to the position.
Collects and compiles information relative to such planning assignments as land use, community/economic development, growth management, urban design, transportation, housing, leisure/human services, historic preservation, or crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED).
Reviews and analyzes plans and proposals for development, annexations, rezoning, and abandonments for their impact on the police department's level of service.
Provides professional and technical assistance to Technical Review Committee, Municipal Planning Board, and the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
Develops and maintains an accurate system to analyze level of police service for expansion of City limits through annexations.
Reviews and evaluates plans and proposals prepared by outside agencies and develops recommendations regarding their soundness and relevance to municipal needs and plans, CPTED review, and police needs.
Confers with local authorities, civic leaders, and planning and development specialists to provide technical assistance and advise and recommend arrangements of land and physical facilities for residential, commercial, industrial, and community uses.
Develops plans, documenting existing conditions, needs, goals, objectives, policies, work programs, implementation strategies, and budgets; revises plans to address changing conditions and needs and to facilitate plan implementation.
Provides information and assistance to the general public regarding land development regulations, CPTED, board procedures, and general office policies and procedures.
Facilitates the development of the department's annual capital improvement program submission.
Performs general planning and research and prepares written reports and oral presentations as assigned.
Conducts field surveys to take photographs and gather information for site plans; prepares pictorial and graphic presentation to be used for planning proposals.
Participates in meetings and public hearings to discuss plans and present the respective department's recommendations.
Reviews the design aspects of proposed development, including urban form, architecture, landscape architecture and signs.
Reviews or prepares design guidelines, neighborhood plans, master plans and streetscape plans.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
FIRE DEPARTMENT:
Note: The listed duties are only illustrative and are not intended to describe every function that may be performed by this job class. The omission of specific statements does not preclude management from assigning specific duties not listed if such duties are a logical assignment to the position.
Collects and compiles information relative to such planning assignments as land use, community/economic development, growth management, fire department access, urban design, and transportation.
Reviews and analyzes civil site plans and proposals for development, annexations, rezoning, and abandonments for their impact on the fire department's level of service.
Provides professional and technical assistance to Technical Review Committee, Municipal Planning Board, and the Board of Zoning Adjustment.
Reviews and evaluates site plans and proposals prepared by outside agencies and develops recommendations regarding their soundness and relevance to municipal and fire operation needs.
Confers with local authorities, civic leaders, and planning and development specialists and civil engineers to provide technical recommendations for residential, commercial, industrial, and community uses.
Performs general planning and research and prepares written reports and oral presentations as assigned.
Conducts site visits associated with new development and planning proposals.
Participates in developer pre-application meetings to discuss site plans and building orientation, present the respective fire department's recommendations.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of the principles, methods, and practices of urban planning/transportation planning.
Knowledge of the principles, methods and practices of urban design, landscape design, architectural design, sign design, transit oriented design, historic preservation, site planning, new urbanism and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
Knowledge of federal, state, and municipal legislation impacting municipal government planning efforts.
Knowledge of research techniques and sources of information, current literature and recent developments regarding urban planning.
Knowledge of planning, principles, practices, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and program content in a particular subject area might be required.
Knowledge of professional techniques of preparing a comprehensive plan for the future development, improvement of a community, and site plans and blueprints.
Knowledge of economics, municipal finance and sociology as applied to City Planning.
Ability to prepare the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) each year for the Police Department.
Ability to organize and analyze information and perform planning research.
Ability to operate a personal computer and Geographic Information System (GIS), and traffic generation, distribution and modeling software, P-Census, MapInfo, AS 400, and Microsoft Office programs.
Ability to visually distinguish colors and designs when planning public art displays, historic preservation plans interior designs, and designing graphs and charts.
Ability to do electronic research for grants at state and federal levels.
Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Ability to initiate and develop programs and policies.
Ability to analyze policy and technical issues and to exercise sound judgment in decision making.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with municipal officials, developers, police officers/management, and the general public.
Ability to speak effectively to public groups, civic organizations and communities.
FIRE DEPARTMENT:
Knowledge of the principles, methods, fire protection features, fire operation practices and urban planning/transportation planning.
Knowledge of the principles, methods and practices of urban design, landscape design, architectural design, sign design, transit-oriented design, fire department access, historic preservation, site planning, and new urbanism.
Knowledge of economics, municipal finance and sociology as applied to City Planning.
Ability to organize and analyze information and perform planning research.
Ability to operate a personal computer and Geographic Information System (GIS), auto-cad type software and Microsoft Office programs.
Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Ability to analyze policy and technical issues and to exercise sound judgment in decision making.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with municipal officials, developers, civil engineers and the general public.
Ability to speak effectively to public groups, civic organizations and communities.
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