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About Us
The City-County Planning Board is a joint City-County agency serving Winston-Salem and unincorporated Forsyth County as well as the smaller municipalities of Bethania, Clemmons, Lewisville, Tobaccoville, Rural Hall and Walkertown. The Board is served by a staff which also functions as an administrative department of City and County government.
The Planning Board was established by a special act of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1948 to provide consolidated planning services to the City of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. As such, it is the oldest consolidated city-county agency in North Carolina.
| In short, Planning staff help the Board do what it is required to accomplish under State law. Staff provides the data, information, and professional recommendations regarding land use issues and other planning policy questions to the Planning Board and elected boards to help them make informed recommendations and decisions. Staff accomplish this work through four multidisciplinary teams - Cultural & Environmental Resources; Comprehensive Planning & Implementation; Design and Development Review; and Planning, Information, and Graphics Services. These teams work on a variety of tasks; a sample of the work is provided below: |
Staff Contact List |
- Preparation of a Master Parks and Recreation Plan
- Support of the Historic Resources Commission
- Support of the Community Appearance Commission
- Transportation Planning
- Environmental Planning and reviews
- Support of the Yadkin River Commission
- Farmland/Rural preservation
- Piedmont Triad Regional Water Quality Partnership
- Legacy Update
- Support of downtown revitalization efforts and downtown planning
- Preparation of area plans for urban and suburban areas
- Legacy monitoring & maintenance
- Legacy-related text amendments
- Design Guidelines
- RUCA program
- Neighborhood Conservation Overlay coordination
- Redevelopment Plans
- Special area planning
- Support of housing and community development efforts
- Trends Report
- Evaluation and processing of all current development requests, including rezoning requests, subdivisions, and other proposals requiring Planning Board review
- Maintenance of all property-based information, including aerial photographs,
Official Zoning Maps, topographic maps, etc.
- Staffing the public telephone lines and counter area to answer property-related questions
- Coordination of street naming
- TAPR plan review
- Construction and application of the Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Coordination of all US Bureau of Census data
- Street Naming/Renaming
- New address assignments and numbering
- Oversight of MAD (Master Address Database)
- Construction and maintenance of the Planning Department web site
- Assistance in preparation of final publication of materials for all sections of the agency
revised 11/3/2009
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