Comprehensive Planning, Neighborhood Planning, and Corridor Planning

Long Range Planning
The Department of Planning and Development provides the Mayor, City Administrator, and City Council with assistance and advice on all community planning and development matters. Additionally, the Department of Planning and Development provides professional and technical staff support services to the City’s Plan Commission. In conjunction with these planning support services to City officials, boards and commissions, the Department works with the Plan Commission and the Community-at-large to periodically update the City’s official Comprehensive Plan and to perform and conduct such other plans, studies, and reports as may be beneficial to development and enhancement of the City.

Neighborhood and Corridor Planning
As planning needs and opportunities arise, the Department of Planning and Development develops or assists with the creation of neighborhood and corridor plans. Typically, such plans are adopted as elements of the City’s official Comprehensive Plan. To date, the City has developed and adopted neighborhood plans for the Floreciente and Edgewater neighborhoods and the Moline Centre downtown/riverfront district. The City has also completed several corridor plans to help guide future development within the Avenue of the Cities Corridor, the John Deere Road corridor, the Illinois 92 corridor, the 19th/27th Street corridor, and most recently the River Drive Corridor.  For 2010, the City will complete a land use and marketing study for the Airport South District, the southern edge of Moline in and around the Quad City International Airport.

Special Projects
The Department of Planning and Development conducts research, performs analysis, and carries out studies on special projects pertaining to development-related issues within the community. Such studies are typically requested and used by City officials as decision-making aids for development issues and to guide and inform the City’s development-related policies.