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Planning Services offers a variety of resources to help navigate the development process within the City of Waco. Access zoning regulations, permitting information, and online applications through the convenient Citizens Self-Service Portal.
Citizens Self-Service Portal
Planners help shape the physical development of the city. Our department is responsible for reviewing development applications for compliance with the zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance, special overlay districts, historic preservation requirements, and relevant design guidelines.
Planners also develop policy, gather data and analyze trends, initiate and develop area plans and other special studies, and implement the vision put forth in the city’s City Plan. Long-range planning provides an opportunity for the city, in partnership with its citizens, to shape the neighborhoods where we live, work or own property, through consideration of land use, zoning, transportation, and urban design elements.