SETD provides technical assistance to planning commissions and local governments throughout the Southeast Tennessee region.  Our planners attend planning commission and board of zoning appeals meetings as well as providing professional planning services in the following areas:

• Land use and comprehensive planning
• Zoning and subdivision regulations
• Plat and site plan review
• Rural Transportation Planning Organization Coordination
• Coordination with TDOT on driveway access
• Annexation and deannexation
• GIS Mapping
• Floodplain management
• Stormwater planning and green development
• Parks and recreation planning
• Grant writing and project administration
• TACIR school and infrastructure needs reporting
• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy reporting
• Planning commissioner training

Planning services are provided on a contract basis and are advisory only.  Local officials and governing bodies maintain exclusive authority to enact, enforce, and amend their regulations.