Municipal Planning Department
Municipal Planning & Development
The City Planning Department is operating under the City management as a support to the management on matters of urban development and physical planning. It offers technical support to the city manager in the daily running of the city. The support operates on the proceeds of Laws, Regulations, and by-laws such as The Urban Areas and Cities Act, the available Land laws, Physical and Land use planning Act of 2019 among others.
The department is part of the committee responsible for Steering, designing, reviewing, implementing, and monitoring proposed infrastructure projects e. g. The non-motorized transport system, street beautification, opening up and upgrade of the sewer line. This section also oversees development control processes and creating awareness on the use of different urban spaces and enforcing them in an organized manner. Currently, much if not all of the development control is carried out at the county’s head quarter’s department of physical planning. The city’s physical planning department in this case offers support to the county’s physical planning department in research and policy, record availing, monitoring enforcement, and compliance within the city boundary. The section is also responsible for reading and interpreting maps. This is important in understanding specified land uses in relation to boundary or projecting urban development trends..