Urban Planner
General Statement of Duties
Under general supervision, to perform professional planning work on projects of average difficulty; to assist on more complex projects.
Examples of Essential Work (Illustrative Only)
- Conducts office and field research and investigations on demographic, social and physical developments, land use and other community development projects.
- Calculates basic statistics and development trends and projects.
- Compiles and analyzes data, makes recommendations, and prepares reports on findings.
- Prepares charts, tables, maps and other graphic materials to illustrate findings and recommendations, and presents studies, reports and findings.
- Reviews site and other physical development plans.
- Gives technical assistance to other City staff members and the public.
- Explains planning concepts, zoning regulations, comprehensive plans and other projects and developmental policies to other staff members, departments, citizen groups and the general public.
- Assists in the analysis, recommendation and report preparation process on more difficult studies.
- Performs related work as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of the principles, practices and trends of urban planning and housing.
- Knowledge of the principles, relationships and general practices involved in site and/or physical project design.
- Knowledge of research techniques and methods of statistical and graphic presentation.
- Knowledge of engineering drawing or graphic illustrations.
- Ability to collect, tabulate and compute socio-economic planning and engineering statistics and to prepare effective reports on such data.
- Ability to make oral presentations.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other staff members, governmental agency representatives, neighborhood groups and the general public.
Acceptable Experience and Training
Graduation from an accredited college or university with major course work in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, sociology or related field, or any equivalent combination in which one year of related experience may be substituted for one year of desired education, but in no case may experience be substituted for more than two years of education.