The Development Approval Applications Division within the Office of the City Auditor and Clerk receives and processes development applications for:

• community workshops,
• rezones
• conditional uses
• site plans
• street vacations
• annexations
• development agreements
• adjustments to the Downtown Code
• Comprehensive Plan Amendments
• Zoning Text Amendments
• off-site and shared parking agreements
• historic designations and certificates of appropriateness
• sidewalk café permits
• street name change requests
• traffic concurrency review and studies
• zoning variance requests and appeals.

This includes tracking fees associated with each application type as well as assuring that all legal advertising and noticing requirements are met when applications are set for public hearing before the Board of Adjustment, Historic Preservation Board, Planning Board and/or City Commission.

General information and forms needed to apply for development approval or sidewalk café permit:

• General Information and Printable Forms
• Link to New Online Application Forms  (Click here for Development Application Portal User Guide)