City-County Planning Department

Application Material

General
  1. Current Planning Fees (Effective July 1, 2011)
  2. Neighborhood Organizations
Appearance Commission
  1. Review Application and Checklist
Board of Adjustment
  1. BOA Pre-Submittal Registration Form
  2. Minor Special Use Permit application
  3. Appeal of Administrative Decision or Zoning Boundary Application
  4. Additional review factors for fences and walls
  5. Custodial care supplemental application
  6. Limited Use Standards: Daycare Facility
  7. Limited Use Standards: Place of Worship
  8. Limited Use Standards: Schools
  9. Variance Application
Common Signage Plan
  1. Application
  2. Process Overview

Customer Service Center

Design District Review Team
  1. Design District Variation Checklist
  2. Request for Variations to Common Signage Plans
  3. University-College Transitional Use Area Additional Site Plan Submittal Requirements
  4. Streetscape Alteration Application
Development Review - Site Plans and Plats
  1. Submittal Information
  2. Pre-submittal/Re-Submittal Registration Form
  3. Large Simplified, Minor, Major Site Plans and Preliminary Plats
    1. Application
    2. Summary Checklist
    3. Complete Standards and Notes
  4. Small Simplified Site Plans
    1. Application
    2. Summary Checklist
    3. Complete Standards and Notes
  5. Administrative Site Plan
    1. Administrative Site Plan Application
    2. Summary Checklist
  6. Final and Exempt Plats
    1. Application
    2. Summary Checklist
    3. Complete Standards and Notes
  7. Architectural Review
  8. Worksheets
    1. Interactive Buffer Model
    2. Buffer and Landscape Worksheet
  9. Special Approvals/Site Determinations
    1. Parking
      1. Daycare
      2. Off-site
      3. Parking Reduction
      4. Alternate or Public Parking Request
    2. Daycare Play Area
    3. Alternate sidewalk/Payment-in-lieu
    4. Environmental
      1. Riparian Buffer Determinations
        1. No Practical Alternatives Authorization
        2. Mitigation
        3. Variance
      2. Floodway Fringe Development (DRB)
      3. Floodway Fringe Development (GB)
      4. Floodway Development Permit
    5. Landscape and Street Tree Variation Request

Environmental Affairs Board

  1. City Application
  2. County Application

Historic Preservation Commission

  1. Certificate of Appropriateness Application Information
  2. Work Requiring a Certificate of Appropriateness
  3. Administrative Certificate of Appropriateness Application
  4. Minor, Major and Master Certificate of Appropriateness Application
  5. Historic Landmark Pre-Submittal Request
  6. Historic Landmark Application

Home Occupation

  1. Application

Major Special Use Permits

  1. Pre-Submittal Registration Form
  2. Application
  3. Transportation Special Use Permit Application
  4. Floodplain Development Findings and Review Factors

Neighborhood Protection Overlay

  1. NPO Process
  2. NPO Process Flowchart
  3. NPO Overview
  4. NPO Pre-submittal Request Form
  5. NPO Application
  6. NPO Design Worksheet
  7. NPO Petition Form
  8. Tuscaloosa-Lakewood NPO Checklist

Ordinance Text Amendment

  1. Application
  2. Process Overview

Plan Amendments

  1. Plan Amendment Application
  2. Schedule
  3. Plan Amendment Process Overview

Site Compliance

  1. Outdoor Lighting Certification
  2. Site Compliance Inspection Checklist

Street Closings

  1. Application
  2. Process Overview

Street Renaming

  1. Application
  2. Process Overview

Zoning Map Change

  1. Pre-Submittal Registration Form
  2. Development Plan as a Site Plan Pre-Submittal Registration Form
  3. Application
  4. Development Plan Checklist
  5. Owner Acknowledgement (with a development plan)
  6. Owner Acknowledgement (without development plan)
  7. Design Commitments Worksheet
  8. Zoning Protest Petition


To reach Durham City-County Planning call 919-560-4137 or fax us at 919-560-4641