Planning and Community Development Intern
The Planning and Community Development Department (PCD) maintains a robust long-range work program to ensure the city’s ordinances remain compliant with state regulations. The city has several long-range projects for 2026. First is to complete the required to update its critical areas regulations by December 31, 2025; this deadline has been carried over into the summer of 2026. The intern position will assist the Senior Planner with mapping updates to the city’s three Subarea Plans and the Industrial Area zoning code and design regulation updates which involves property owner and public participation. If time allows the intern would be educated in archiving, scanning maps and participate in preparing an empirical parking study documentation and data collection to support the rationale for the state mandated parking code updates to LSMC 14.72 and 14.38 Subareas to be consistent with RCW 36.70A.635 and 681.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Conducts research of past development projects, uses GIS to map critical areas and new maps for all three of the subarea plans updates.
- Field work, documentation and mapping for the empirical parking study.
- Records management and archiving.
- Performs special projects as assigned.
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
- Performs other duties as assigned.