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March 12, 2010

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Nevada County Community Development Agency
Planning Department
Jory Stewart, AICP, Planning Director
950 Maidu Ave. Suite 170
Nevada City, CA 95959
Telephone 530-265-1222
Fax 530-265-9851
Email planning@co.nevada.ca.us

The Planning Department includes the following Divisions:
Code Compliance, Housing, and Land Use (Current and Advance Planning)

Nevada County Fire Plan/Safety Element
CLICK HERE to visit the Fire Plan section of our Website.

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Mission and Objectives Why and how we do what we do in the Planning Department.

Advance Planning Division The Advance Planning Division is responsible for long-range planning in Nevada County, including but not limited to tasks related to updating and implementation of the Nevada County General Plan, preparing Zoning Ordinance amendments and all aspects of Recreation Planning.

Current Planning Division View current applications status information and EIR documents here.

Zoning Administrator The Zoning Administrator has jurisdiction over several planning-related issues.

Planning Commission Planning Commission members, and links to Agendas, Minutes and the Calendar are here.

Planning FAQ's The questions we answer every day.

Featured Stories
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2009-2014 Nevada County Housing Element Update The Nevada County Planning Department has completed an Administrative Draft of the 2009-2014 Housing Element Update. This link will take you to all current documents related to the update, including the Public Review Draft.

Related Items

Advance Planning Projects

Looking for information on an advance planning project? This link takes you to a collection of long range planning projects being processed.

CDA Fee Schedules

Effective August 2, 2009. Includes the schedules for CDA Admin, Building, Planning, Environmental Health and Code Compliance.

County Land Use Codes

Link to all 17 Chapters of the Nevada County Land Use and Development Code.

Current Planning Projects

Looking for information on a current project? This link takes you to a collection of current land use applications being processed.

General Plan

This link takes you to the page containg the adopted Nevada County General Plan.

General Plan Land Use Map

View a copy of the Nevada County General Plan Land Use Map and zoom into a specific area. (1.6 Mb PDF file)

GIS Interactive Maps

Explore detailed interactive maps of all recorded property parcels in Nevada County! (Must use Microsoft Internet Explorer v.5 or later.)

Land Use Application Forms

Many forms required for processing Land Use requests with the Planning Department may be downloaded here.

Planning Resource Documents

Planning reports, detailed studies and other reference documents.

Recreational Trails Master Plan

The Nevada County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider the Western Nevada County Non-Motorized Recreational Trails Master Plan on March 11, 2010.

Subdivision Ordinance

This link downloads Chapter 4 of the Land Use and Development Code. Download the ordinance (a 1.3 MB PDF file).

Zoning District Maps

Need to find a zoning map? Follow this to the collection of ZDMs for all of Nevada County.

Zoning Ordinance

This link downloads Chapter 2 of the Land Use and Development Code. A 2MB Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

Tools

CDA is open to the public Monday through Friday (excluding County Holidays), from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM including the lunch hour.

Permits are not accepted for processing after 4:00 PM.

CDA accepts cash, checks, cashier's checks and credit cards.


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