Proposals & Projects

The Planning Department assists the community with current planning and long range planning.

Current Planning 
Current Planning assists the community with land use issues and questions, evaluates all types of development applications and maintains the City's development regulations. It involves the processing of land use applications that vary widely in their scope and complexity for the City's various public review bodies, as well as managing the steady stream of counter and telephone contact with the public. The contact ranges from zoning and land use questions to complaints regarding nuisances on other people's property. 
 

Long Range Planning 
The purpose of long-range planning is, generally, to insure that the current needs and desires of the community continue to be met by the local planning program. However, long-range planning is also the forum in which the community describes what it wants to become, and how it will get there. Long-range planning in McMinnville prepares and maintains plans and programs to accomplish these purposes. Such plans cover topics that include how much land will be available for various uses, maintaining an adequate supply of housing opportunities, ensuring good and efficient transportation systems, and the use and protection of natural resources.

Please feel free to contact the department staff if you have any questions regarding any of our existing guiding land use plans, or as regard long-range land use issues in general.