Christopher Hughey, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

The Permits Division of the City Planning & Development Department for Kansas City, MO is comprised of three branches including Contractor Licensing & Customer Service, Permits, and Plans Management. The team is made up of a little over 20 great team members who work closely with other divisions, departments, design professionals, contractors, and residents.The Contractor Licensing & Customer Service Branch ensures licensed contractors (e.g. residential building contractors, electricians, plumbers, and mechanical contractors) maintain required insurance standards, obtain necessary continuing education requirements, etc. as well as handles a majority of customer service inquires mostly focused on plan review and permitting requirements. Additionally, the team schedules all building inspections.The Permits Branch handles most over the counter permitting requirements, conducts zoning reviews on proposed one and two-family construction projects and some multi-family projects, they ensure permitting requirements and standards are met prior to permit issuance, provide detailed guidance to applicants on next steps, city ordinances, and general Q&A.The Plans Management Branch reviews are submitted private construction projects of minimum quality standards before routing to applicable review teams. This quality control review is essential to providing timely responses and guidance applicants to ensure these minimum standards are met before formalized reviews commence. My personal duties include overseeing these three branches within the Permits Division. Additionally, I assist with code amendments, process improvements, developing training plans, website content updates, serve as a core team member for the department's management of the CompassKC software system, and work closely with the Permits team along with other departments to promote development within the city.

Kansas City, Missouri

As part of the Development Management Division in the City Planning & Development Department I review numerous projects for city regulations and guide them through major steps of the development review process. Often these projects require public hearings which included detailed presentations before the City Plan Commission, the Board of Zoning Adjustment, and the City Council. Additional responsibilities include aiding with updates to the City's Zoning & Development Code updates, working to continuously improve the City's new Energov (aka CompassKC) permitting and development review software, work with Long Range Planners on updates to the City's Area Plans (aka Comprehensive Plans), and serve as "Planner of the Day". I often serve as a department liaison to the City's "Mobility Committee".

220 Se Green Street Lee'S Summit, Mo 64112

As a Project Manager in the Development Services Department I act as a “coach” to an applicant through the entire development process. Additionally, I monitor process and reviews to ensure timeliness and coordinating various components of a development. In this role I act as the primarily liaison between the City and the applicant. My daily interactions with fellow staff members and applicants require sound communication, adaptability, and maintaining an objective mindset. Further, I have learned to lead without direct assigned oversight of fellow staff members or the applicant’s team. To do so I rely on my ability to listen, teach, and bring together various ways of thinking. In this role I have a variety of experiences and a deep knowledgebase in planning and zoning ordinances, building codes, traffic control regulations, infrastructure requirements, development incentives, and contract development.I continue to develop my relationships with partner organizations such as the Economic Development Council, the Chamber, Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, among others. In addition, I have reassumed my role as one of the department leads for the City’s development and permit tracking software, CityView, which is used to coordinate reviews and inspections across the various City departments. I provide staff training and make ongoing improvements to the program. Additionally, I am one of the primary go-to staff members to assist colleagues with questions and troubleshooting issues.

Grandview, Mo

I was the City Planner for Grandview, whose key responsibilities included development review, coordinating multi-department reviews, staff support for the Historic Preservation Commission, Board of Zoning Adjustments, and the Planning Commission. Additionally, I was the GIS database manager for the City with a focus monitoring zoning and parcel updates.

I began as a Planning Technician with the city in 2006 and was promoted to Planner in 2009. As a Planner I performed a variety of responsibilities and my primary duty is to review several diverse proposed developments from submittal, through public hearings, and to final inspection. I served as one of core team members to for the implementation of the new permitting software "CityView". I worked with the local Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street organization and other vested stakeholders to develop and implement the "Downtown Design Standards". I served as the primary planner and staff liaison to the City's Historic Preservation Commission.

As Planning Technician for the Planning & Development Department I performed several responsibilities. I reviewed a variety of proposed devlopments from submittal through final inspection, these included urban redevelopments, residential subdivisions, commercial and industrial developments. Often these developments required me to prestent the project before governing bodies during public hearings. I am the primary representative of the department to local citizens. I researched information, addresssed questions and performed many other tasks to assist the citizens. I also performed a multitude of office coordinating tasks.

My summer internship with the City consisted of evaluating proposed developments and researching various issues and topics for the department. My primary assignment was to build a photo database of developments throughout the Kansas City Metro area to provide a basis for creating design guidelines to evaluate future developments for the city.