The Planning Department addresses the primary needs for major transportation improvements including corridor evaluations and studies, land use, concurrency management, development review, long range transportation planning, traffic calming and oversees the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) which operates as an independent planning agency.

The Transportation Planning Department is one of the five departments under Transportation Services Division. Transportation planning is the critical precursor to the implementation of any transportation improvement.

The Transportation Planning Department is actively involved in concurrency management, impact fee analysis and the coordination and review of developer commitment agreements, and credits of transportation impact fees. The Transportation Planning Department also plays an active role in the development and maintenance of the transportation Capital Improvement Program (CIP), and the negotiations and adoption of developer agreements required to compliment the CIP.

The Transportation Planning Department continues to provide the long range planning services of the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) as well as support the traffic calming program for the entire county.