Community Development Department

The Community Development Department provides long-range strategies for the City's growth management and revitalization, and the preservation of its character, neighborhoods, and natural environment.

The Community Development Department includes the City's Planning, Housing, Redevelopment, Code Enforcement and Block Grant functions.  The Planning Division, the Department's largest division, includes comprehensive planning, neighborhood planning, current planning, historic preservation, GIS map preparation and graphic services.

The Community Development Department Listserv (e-mail list service) provides subscribers with agendas of all Planning Division public meetings, the latest information on the Comprehensive Plan update and other items of interest to the public.  Instructions on how to subscribe are available for download (6KB).  Current agendas for the City Plan Board, Development Review Board, Board of Adjustment and Historic Preservation Board are all available on the Planning Division Page.

The Community Development Department includes five divisions:

• Planning
• Redevelopment
• Block Grant
• Housing
• Code Enforcement

Gainesville’s Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)

• See the vision for – CRA Visual Master Plan



• 2007 Annual Report is available for download ( 462KB)



• 2007 Financials is available for download ( 36KB)