The Planning Division staff reviews and processes a variety of Land Use applications. In addition to preparing variance applications to be heard by the Board Of Adjustment, the Planning staff also prepares site plan and subdivision plan applications to be heard by the Regional Planning Commission, and rezoning and conditional use applications which are heard by both the Regional Planning Commission and the Levy Court. Many of these applications require a formal plan prepared by a registered land surveyor, engineer or architect licensed in the State of Delaware, which is then reviewed by the staff for compliance with the Kent County Zoning & Subdivision Code Ordinances.

This is the first office to contact regarding zoning information for land use and building setback requirements.

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Looking for application forms or checklists?

Go to Administrative > Applications under the Navigation column to the left or click here.

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Kent County Official Zoning Maps

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Kent County

Comprehensive Plan

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Major Subdivision Plan

Expiration Guidelines -

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The Regional Planning Commission Public Hearing held their Business Meeting on  Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7PM. Contact the planning office for the results of this hearing.

The Board of Adjustment meeting for May will be held Thursday May 17, 2012 at 6:30PM.  The legal notice can be found here.  The exhibits and reports are posted on this page.

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Kent County Industrial Areas

The 2007 Comrehensive Plan designates potential areas for larger scale economic development.  The following are the indentified areas:

Clayton

West Cheswold

North Dover

West Frederica

West Milford

South Harrington

Farmington

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