Responsibilities of the Planning and Development Department
Urban Planning Section
Surveying Section
Studies and Project Design Section
GIS Section
Urban Planning Section
- Planning and amending street alignments on land settlement blocks and in citizens' transactions.
- Preparing the master plan, with all the studies and plans it requires.
- Following up on citizens' objections to street plans.
- Following up on land subdivision requests.
- Following up on information requests.
- Following up on traffic matters, as follows :
Coordinating with the relevant authorities to organize public transport, designate its stops and determine the city's public transport line needs. All of this is discussed in the Traffic Committee's meetings.
Preparing all traffic plans for street routes and intersections, and organizing parking in public squares, in coordination with the Ministry of Transport .
Implementing the traffic plan by setting traffic directions in the city's streets and providing all the signs and traffic barriers needed, through requests for quotations and tenders .
Following up on all speed bump requests: each site is inspected to decide whether a speed bump is needed, and approved requests are referred to the Engineering Department for implementation.
Surveying Section
- Surveying municipal facilities.
- Detailed surveys and level surveys ( of streets for street planning, of streets for street design, and of land plots proposed for development projects).
- Preparing survey plans of municipal facilities and properties.
- Preparing grid and contour plans for land plots proposed for projects.
- Designing streets and preparing their bills of quantities, cost estimates and specifications.
- Marking street boundaries and alignments for the electricity company.
- Marking street boundaries and alignments for the telecommunications company.
- Following up on land settlement within the municipal boundaries.
- Following up on citizens' requests to open, widen and pave streets.
- Marking street alignments at citizens' request.
- Any other surveying work assigned to the section.
Studies and Project Design Section
- Carrying out technical feasibility studies for projects.
- Cooperating with the relevant ministries and institutions to plan all the development and investment projects the city needs.
- Preparing architectural and structural designs.
- Preparing bills of quantities, technical specifications and cost estimates for projects.
- Preparing requests for quotations and tenders for projects, and following up on issuing them with the Procurement Unit.
- Preparing the needs of the city's schools through the Education Committee.
- Working with engineering offices on the design and preparation of various projects.
- Organizing engineering design competitions for the Municipality.
- Coordinating with various institutions to carry out projects in the city.
- Preparing project implementation schedules.
- Taking part in tender opening and technical evaluation committees.
GIS Section
- Updating Dura Municipality's geographic database based on completed land settlement blocks, Municipal Council decisions and the output of the Municipality's other departments.
- Supporting the Municipality's departments by providing them with the planning data they need about Dura.
- Mapping Dura's buildings, linking them to building permits, and recording each building's owner and details such as the number of floors and apartments.
- Entering changes to streets or land plots based on Municipal Council decisions or completed subdivision transactions.
- Supporting the new master plan project by using GIS for mapping, verification and area calculation.
- Regularly updating and processing aerial images.
- Carrying out any other tasks assigned to the section within its field and expertise.
- Using geographic information systems to support decision-making.
- Updating the data of Dura's tourist map and making the information easy for citizens to access.
- Taking part in preparing statistical and area reports on Dura's municipal boundaries.
