Assistant Planner

**THE CITY** Located in the gateway to the Los Angeles metropolis, the City of Paramount offers secure quality of life to its residents and a business-friendly attitude that has created a growing retail and services sector, with a thriving Downtown. Paramount's government is a stable, innovative, and financially conservative organization, and the City has continually invested in its infrastructure and emphasized code enforcement and assistance programs to help residents and businesses upgrade and maintain their properties. For these reasons, the City has a distinctive appearance that appeals to current and potential residents. For its employees, Paramount offers a family-friendly organization that places emphasis on lifework balance and flexibility. City leadership highly values the input and impact of each employee. Rather than work from the top-down, Paramount chooses collaboration, fostering a professional, respectful, and fulfilling work environment. **CITY GOVERNMENT** The City of Paramount is operated by 6 departments: Administrative Services; Planning and Building; Public Safety; Public Works; Community Services, and Finance. With an operating budget of $50.4M, City population of 52,000, and covering 4.8 square miles, the City of Paramount is dedicated to providing fiscally responsible services that maintain a vibrant community that is Safe, Healthy, and Attractive! We value respect and ethical behaviors, adaptability, service excellence, and accountability. The City promotes innovation through teamwork, and providing effective, inclusive, and transparent public information and engagement. **THE POSITION** Under direction, the Assistant Planner will perform professional planning and land use work involving the review, analysis, interpretation and presentation of planning and zoning data. They will complete environmental analysis, evaluate and process developer plans and permit requests, and ensure applications are in compliance with various local land development and zoning ordinances and regulations. The Assistant Planner will prepare and present reports and recommendations to the community and at public meetings relating to land use and environmental impact. Lastly, they will inform the public, land developers and others of various local code and ordinance requirements; and perform other related duties as assigned.**ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES** - Perform professional duties related to urban planning projects and programs; perform planning studies; review and analyze development applications; review development proposals. - Confer with and provide oral and written consultative advice to the public including residents, property and business owners, architects, builders, attorneys, contractors, and engineers concerning land use applications and permits, and the interpretation of Department policies and regulations, zoning, subdivision, environmental impacts and other relevant land use-related regulations and procedures; research and respond to inquiries and concerns. - Research, analyze, prepare and present reports concerning land use regulations and current and long-range planning issues, including changes to the organization’s development plan and land development policies and standards; prepare and present recommendations as required for consideration by administrators and officials. - Prepare and present reports and recommendations for administrators, public hearings and meetings relating to land use and environmental impact; conduct technical research studies and prepare statistical reports and recommendations for drafting or revising local codes and legislation. - Review developer plans for compliance with setbacks, parking requirements, landscape design, and other related requirements; conduct field investigations of development sites to verify zoning code relevancy and status of potential environmental issues; review proposals for compliance with State and federal regulations; communicate with developers to review and…