The Community Development Department’s mission is to facilitate the creation of safe, balanced, efficient, visually appealing and economically sustainable developments within Goddard’s planning area by offering streamlined development processes that ensure timely and reasonable economic returns for members of the development community while simultaneously protecting the larger public interest, soliciting and incorporating the public’s feedback in land use and policy recommendations and working with elected and appointed officials to ensure that existing policies and regulations accurately reflect City Council’s goals and objectives for the community.