The Physical Planning and Housing Department is headed by City Physical Planner and is be responsible for planning, designing and managing the City’s physical infrastructure and providing technical guidance on the urban designs, infrastructural improvement, and housing and land development in the City.

Key Functions 

• Design a system for guiding, monitoring, and enforcing developments in the City in line with the applicable laws.
• Plan and design the City physical infrastructure including the re-zoning, land sub-division and determination of the areas for development;
• Plan, survey map and delineate the areas for social infrastructure, establishment of geodetic control, quality checks of cadastral jobs; and survey the City land boundaries, produce and print topographical maps;
• Register the City land and facilitate management in identifying suitable uses of such land for the benefit of the people;
• Plan and monitor the survey, valuation, registration and administration of land in the City and manage resolution of land disputes;
• Provide architectural services in the review of building plans and inspect building projects approved by the City to ensure conformity to the approval and compliance with the land use plan;
• Design architectural drawing for City building projects; 
• Supervise the erection and demolition of buildings, repairs, renovations, alternations, extensions, installation of utilities; including   electricity and gas in the City buildings;
• Undertake physical planning of the City and ensure building plans conform to the master plan;
• Guide developers in processing proper building plans, drawing of the structural designs, land           use layout; and
• Designs drawings of the land scape and implement the projects in line with the drawings and designs developed.