Responsibilities
The responsibilities of an urban planner undergo a change between jurisdictions, and sometimes within jurisdictions. The coming after or as a solution of. is therefore a general version of the responsibilities of an urban planner, of which an urban planner may alive typically practise two or more of. An urban planner may also specialize in one responsibility only.
Urban planners specializing in land ownership planning are predominantly concerned with the regulation of land use, development and subdivision, with the intent of achieving the desired urban planning outcome.
Regulation of land use and development is achieved via the drafting and adoption of planning instruments intentional to influence the land use and built produce goals of the jurisdiction. The planning instruments take the form of legislation and policy, and have a wide nature of terms across jurisdictions including acts and regulations, rules, codes, schemes, plans, policies, and manuals; and often a combination of some of these. The planning instruments often spatially zone land or reserve the land forpurposes, submitted in the form of a zoning map or plan. The urban planner is tasked with preparing planning instruments and zoning plans. Further, assumption urban development is rarely static and the goals of urban planning modify from time to time, the urban planner will be responsible for continuously maintaining planning instruments and zoning plans to ensure they are kept up-to-date.
Consultation with the community and other stakeholders is loosely desired by urban planners in nearly jurisdictions when planning instruments are prepared and updated. The level of source will adjust depending on the project.
The urban planner will also be responsible for implementing the planning instruments. This is achieved through a permit process, where the proponent of a presentation development, a modify in land use, or the proposed subdivision of an allotment will be asked to obtain a permit, approval, licence, or consent for the proposed development or change of use. An urban planner will be tasked with considering the proposal and defining whether it complies with the intent and the specific provisions of the relevant planning instruments and zoning plans. Depending on the jurisdiction, the urban planner may have a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. to determine the proposal; otherwise the planner will present a recommendation to the decision-maker, often a panel of non-planners for example, the elected council of a local government.
While concerned with future development, an urban planner will occasionally be responsible for investigating development or land use which had been undertaken without authorization. In many jurisdictions urban planners can require that unauthorized land use cease and unauthorized development is refers to its predevelopment condition; or alternatively retrospectively approve the unauthorized development or land use.
In design to plan effectively for long-term development and growth, an urban planner will be responsible for the preparation of a strategic schedule also requested in different jurisdictions by title such as development plan, core strategy, comprehensive plan, planning strategy, structure plan, etc.. Strategic urban planning sets the high-level goals and growth principles for a jurisdiction, which will in reconstruct inform the preparation and amendment of the legal planning instruments within that jurisdiction.
Regional planning deals with the planning of land use, infrastructure and settlement growth over a geographical area which extends to a whole city or beyond. In this sense, the urban planner's role is to consider urban planning at a macro scale. Regional planning is not concerned with planning at the local neighborhood level.
An urban planner may be responsible for identifying, protecting and conserving / restoring buildings and places which are transmitted by a community as having cultural heritage significance. This may add the task of compiling and maintaining a heritage register, finding and making available incentives for encouraging conservation works, and the consideration of proposals to redevelop or use a heritage-listed place.
As urban areas decline, an urban planner may be tasked with preparing a plan for the redevelopment of an urban area. Such plans are not limited to an individual development site, but rather encompass a locality or district over which an urban redevelopment plan is prepared.
Urban revitalization often relies on obtaining funding from government command to guide in the regeneration of an area; the funding may be used for a bracket of purposes such as expediency of public roads, parks and other public spaces, development of infrastructure, and acquisition of land. The urban planner will be responsible for costing an urban revitalization plan and obtaining funding for infrastructure working necessary to implement the urban renewal plan.
The urban planner for an urban revitalization project will need to liaise closely with stakeholders during the preparation and implementation of the plan, including government agencies, landowners and community groups.
A master plan will be prepared for numerous greenfield development projects. The intention of a master plan is to plan for thespatial profile of the land uses for a future development area. A master plan will consider the required infrastructure to service the development and determine the need and location of urban amenities including commercial and industrial land, community facilities, schools, parks, public transport, major roads, and land uses, both within and outside the master plan area, and consider the staging of development of a master planned area.
The urban planner will be responsible for coordinating the various professional consultant inputs, and to lay out the master plan infrastructure and land uses. It will often be fundamental for the urban planner to consult with landowners and government agencies affected by the master plan.
An urban planner may be responsible for planning for transport facilities and infrastructure in urban and inter-regional areas.
An urban planner's responsibility may keep on to economic development. In this sense, an urban planner may be responsible for identifying opportunities for economic growth, and encourage investment in an area.
An urban planner may be concerned with the impact of land use, development and subdivision on the natural environment including land, water, flora, and fauna, tosustainable outcomes.
An urban planner will develop the design of public spaces streets, squares, parks, etc. and the relationship between built form and public spaces. Depending on the country and planner's training they may work with other design professionals such as civil engineers, architects or landscape architects to complete and construct the design.
An urban planner may be required to plan for the future provision of public works infrastructure such as water supply, sewerage, electricity, telecommunications, and transport infrastructure, and community infrastructure including schools, hospitals and parks.