Physical Planning in its broadest sense refers to a set of actions aimed at improving the Physical, Social and Economic welfare of a place and its dwellers.

Mandate

The mandate of the physical planning is:

• To promote orderly and sustainable urban development in the city.
• Plan and design the City physical infrastructure including the re-zoning, land sub-division and determination of the areas for development
• Delineate the areas for social infrastructure e.g. schools, health centre, free space, etc.

Vision

To attain orderly, progressive, sustainable urban and rural development as a framework for industrialization; provision of social and physical infrastructure, agriculture modernization and poverty eradication.

Mission 

Mission

To ensure adequately planned land utilization, by adhering to policy framework, provide technical guidance, monitor and supervise plan formulation and implementation

Strategic Direction

Our City is aware that unplanned rapid city growth will cause structural and socio economic challenges including but not limited to; low level of physical planning, lack of an integrated transport system, challenges related to environmental management, development of slums and unplanned settlements, urban poverty exacerbated by high level of unemployment, poor infrastructure for markets, water, housing and health services systems, and severe challenges of crime, crowding, congestion and pollution among others.  Our city has embarked on development of a comprehensive physical plan covering all the newly annexed areas. 

Establishment of Physical Planning Committee

Section 12 of the Physical planning (Amendment) Act 2020 states that “each urban authority or city shall establish a city physical planning committee which shall consist of”: 

• The City clerk who shall be the chairperson
• Urban Physical planner who shall be the secretary
• City Land Surveyor
• City Engineer
• City Environment Officer
• an Architect 
• The officer responsible for public health 
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Core Functions of Urban Physical Planning Committee

This department is responsible for planning, designing and managing the City’s physical infrastructure and providing technical guidance on the urban designs, infrastructural improvement, and housing and land development in the City. Its key functions are to: 

• Design a system for guiding, monitoring, and enforcing developments in the City in line with the applicable laws.
•  Plan and design the City physical infrastructure including the re-zoning, land sub-division and determination of the areas for development.
•  Plan, survey map and delineate the areas for social infrastructure, establishment of geodetic control, quality checks of cadastral jobs and survey the City land boundaries, produce and print topographical maps.
•  Register the City land and facilitate management in identifying suitable uses of such land for the benefit of the people. Plan and monitor the survey, valuation, registration and administration of land in the City and manage resolution of land disputes. 
• Provide architectural services in the review of building plans and inspect building projects approved by the City to ensure conformity to the approval and compliance with the land use plan.
•  Design architectural drawing for City building projects.
•  Supervise the erection and demolition of buildings, repairs, renovations, alternations, extensions, installation of utilities; including electricity and gas in the City buildings.
•  Undertake physical planning of the City and ensure building plans conform to the master plan.
•  Guide developers in processing proper building plans, drawing of the structural designs, land use layout.
• Designs drawings of the landscape and implement the projects in line with the drawings and designs developed.