All appointed board and commission members (existing and new), local government staff, and elected officials should attend this training.

This is a solid introduction to the basics of what planning and zoning are.

You will learn:

• terminology
• what the roles in the local government planning and zoning processes are (citizens, applicants, planning commission/planning commissioners, planning and zoning staff, and elected officials)
• what state laws are applicable to the work Planners and Zoners do
• what the job is and how to do the job
• how to interpret and use the city/county comprehensive plan to make land use decisions
• why the plan is the anchor of those decisions
• how to use the local ordinance and the plan to make the decisions
• how to plan for the future: demographic and land use trends as well as population projections and asset-based planning.

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