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What is Planning?#

A photo showing a park, bike path, picnic areas, homes, and a small lake

In Planning & Development Services, we work with the community to develop policy plans to guide the future of Fort Collins. We use these policy plans to write code. We use these codes to regulate development.

See our community's plans here.

See a City-wide directory of plans here.

Read about the importance of development review here

See the City of Fort Collins Land Use Code here.

When we are fully staffed, our group is made up of around:

  • 4 Planners specializing in Long-range Planning, 
  • 7 Planners specializing in Development Review Planning, 
  • 4 Planners specializing in Environmental Planning (long-range and development review).
  • 1 Neighborhood Liaison,
  • 4 Development Review Coordinators,
  • 7 Zoning Inspectors, 
  • 2 Administrative staff, 
  • A Development Review Manager, and a Planning Manager overseeing us all. 

Meet Our Teams

Learn more!#

These two videos are lectures that are a bit of a deeper dive into two sides of Planning: Long-range Planning and Development Review Planning. On our team, Planners tend to specialize in one or the other, but work on projects in both categories.