Development Services - Permitting & Zoning
The City of Dayton Dayton Development Services staff is responsible for citywide planning, building inspection, and code enforcement including implementing and enforcement of subdivision and other development regulations, building codes, signage, and abatement code violations.
City of Dayton Planning & Development Services Office
The City of Dayton adopted a Unified Development Code in May 2019, which combines traditional zoning and subdivision regulations with design guidelines and stormwater management. The Unified Development Code streamlines and coordinates the development process.
All public and private streets, thoroughfares, drainage facilities, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, street lighting, and signage, and other such facilities shall be designed in accordance with the most recent guidelines of the Engineering Design Standards and Specifications. The standards set forth in the design manual are intended to be minimum requirements. The developer shall be responsible for determining if requirements that are more stringent are necessary for a particular development.
Engineering Design Standards and Specifications
Dayton Planning Documents
The Dayton Community Development Corporation provided the funding to create Dayton's fundamental planning documents, including the Dayton Comprehensive Plan, the Dayton Parks & Recreation Master Plan, the Dayton Downtown Revitalization Plan, and Dayton's Unified Development Code.
Dayton Comprehensive Plan
Dayton’s Comprehensive Plan reflects the work of just over a year-long planning and citizen involvement process resulting in the City’s first-ever Comprehensive Plan. The plan’s findings and strategies focus on the physical and economic aspects of Dayton’s growth and development over a 20-year planning horizon. One goal of the Comprehensive Plan is to develop a unified vision, guiding principles, and “big picture” strategies that provide overarching guidance for current and future decision-makers. The implementation section helps to ground these recommendations in reality by prioritizing short-, mid-, and long-term strategies - with an emphasis on near-term “catalysts” that activate desired change.
Dayton Parks & Recreation Master Plan
The purpose of the Dayton Parks and Recreation Master Plan is to determine the community’s current and future needs for improving its parks and recreation system and to provide for adequate areas and facilities to meet both the short and long-term needs of the community. The master plan is a guide for policy and decision-making related to the availability, location, type, scale and quality of park and recreation opportunities to meet the needs of Dayton residents and visitors. The plan considers the needs and priorities based on the current and projected population and development within Dayton.
Dayton Downtown Revitalization Plan
Downtown Dayton is the historic heart of the fast-growing City of Dayton. One of the advantages of the existing street grid in the downtown area is that it creates a very walkable and unique physical environment. Today’s demographic shifts combined with known growth potential in and around the Dayton area, make it an ideal time for public and private reinvestment in Downtown. From a policy perspective, the adoption of the first-ever Comprehensive Plan, calls for a higher quality of life for residents. In today’s world, downtowns can play a pivotal role in economic development, which ultimately has the ability to improve resident quality of life. Revitalizing Dayton’s downtown is vital to balancing public and private investment in new growth areas with older areas of the City of Dayton, especially those in need of a redevelopment focus.
The Downtown Revitalization Plan considers physical improvements to the downtown area and provides a unique Downtown Dayton toolbox for implementation. By having a Downtown Revitalization Plan, the City of Dayton is taking an active step to signal a clear intention to redevelop Downtown and provide guidance on how and where the City would like such redevelopment to occur. The end goal is to ensure that the downtown area reflects desired community standards and serves as a viable place to live, work, play, and shop. The general approach and methodology utilized was to establish a vision grounded in regional and local market realities. From there, catalytic sites were selected and prioritized based on specific criteria and highest potential to spur redevelopment activity. The market tests developed as part of this plan provide a reality check for the concepts developed during the planning process that ultimately prove their development feasibility. The Downtown Revitalization Plan establishes a new vision and action agenda for the City of Dayton.
