Activities

Principal activities include staff assistance and formulating recommendations to the City Council, Planning Board, Zoning Board of Review, City Centre Warwick and maintenance of the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The Department acts in consultation with the Mayor in formulating the City’s Capital Improvements Program. The Department is also responsible for the administration of such duties as may be assigned by the Mayor or prescribed by City Council Ordinance.

The activities of the Planning Department include:

• Regulatory Review
• Policy development
• Project coordination and review
• Coordination of RIDOT highway projects including the preparation of the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) submission to the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC)

Professional staff support and assistance to:

• Warwick City Council
• Planning Board
• Historic District Commission
• Historic Cemetery Commission
• Zoning Board of Review
• Harbor Management Commission
• Neighborhood Associations
• Wildlife and Conservation Commission
• Warwick Land Trust
• Storm Water Management Committee
• Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee

City Representation to:

• Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC)
• Governors Advisory Committee on Natural Heritage Preservation
• The Governor's Narragansett Bay and Watershed Planning Commission
• Greenwich Bay Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) 
• Technical Review Committee and Citizens Advisory Committee