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Zoning Specialist

City of New York
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2025

THE AGENCY

The Department of City Planning (DCP) through extensive community engagement plans for the strategic growth and development of the City develops citywide and neighborhood land use policies and zoning regulations and shares its perspectives on growth and community needs with sister agencies in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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THE DIVISION

The Technical Review Division (TRD) supports the Departments mission and the Citys goals by reviewing land use applications that facilitate the construction of millions of square feet of housing commercial space and open space per year. TRD ensures that land use applications provide complete and correct information to community boards borough presidents the City Council and the general public. Interfacing with the development community and planners across the Agency Technical Review Planners develop and utilize indepth expertise in zoning design plan review land use process and project management. The Division also maintains the official City Map and Zoning Map of New York City which lays out the streets parks and zoning districts.

THE ROLE

TRD seeks an architect or city planner familiar with or eager to learn New York City zoning and land use approval processes to review and process applications to the New York City Planning Commission for development approvals. Each Zoning Specialist is responsible for managing 4060 projects that facilitate development ranging from singlefamily homes to 1 millionsquarefoot towers across the city from Arrochar to Midtown to Williamsburg.

This role involves the following tasks :

Perform complex zoning analyses on all manner of developments across the city including research into zoning and building code property histories legislative histories and other sources as necessary.

Review land use applications for completeness accuracy and other planning considerations

Produce and review official Departmental documents including Notices Sketchmaps and City Planning Commission Reports.

Provide technical assistance to developers architectural and legal professionals and community planners.

Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fastpaced environment consistent with Department and City Hall priorities.

Conduct meetings with city and privatesector professionals to resolve issues and recommend strategies.

Perform related tasks

The selected candidate will become expert in the NYC zoning resolution and NYC land use approval process. They will also be exposed to many highly varied projects and work with planners across this and other City agencies in a highly collaborative environment.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of satisfactory fulltime experience in city planning; or

2. A satisfactory combination of education and / or experience that is equivalent to 1 above. Graduate

education in city planning urban planning urban design architecture landscape architecture transportation engineering public administration economic development or related fields may be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits from an accredited college for one year of experience. However all candidates must have a baccalaureate degree.

Special Qualification Requirements

Assignment Level III

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level III individuals must have after meeting the minimum requirements one additional year of professional experience as described in 2 above.

Assignment Level IV

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV individuals must have after meeting the minimum requirements two additional years of professional experience as described in 2 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

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