Small Area Plans To complement the comprehensive plan for the city and to focus on specific areas of need, the city and communities have prepared a number of small area plans over the past several year: Broadway Corridor Burton Street Neighborhood Plan Charlotte Street Corridor Downtown Master Plan Downtown Master Plan Appendices East End/Valley Street Vision Plan Haywood Road Corridor Shiloh Neighborhood Plan WestEnd/Clingman Avenue (WECAN) Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan Neighborhood Plans on a Page To inform the development of the Living Asheville Comprehensive Plan, Asheville neighborhoods were encouraged to submit a Plan on a Page, a tool design to help neighborhood groups organize themselves in order to build community and develop consensus around neighborhood priorities. Neighborhoods that haven’t yet submitted one are encouraged to do so. Contact Information Marie Biddix – 828-259-5856 Updated 9/3/2019 Related Services Learn about large-scale development Keep up to date on current projects and applications. Explore city data Public datasets and maps are available on the open data portal at data.ashevillenc.gov. Schedule a mandatory Technical Review Committee pre-application meeting Schedule your required pre-application meeting for Level II, Level III, Conditional Zoning and Major Subdivision reviews. Apply for a homestay permit Apply for a new homestay permit or apply to renew your existing permit. Look up information about a permit Use online tools to look up information about permits Check whether your address is within city limits Search to see if it is within the City of Asheville's permitting jurisdiction. Find what permits and licenses you need for your business Use Asheville's Open for Business wizard to find out what permits and licenses you will need and an estimate of permit fees. Find location and zoning information Find the zoning information for your project. More Related Services Small Area Plans News City Council approves 1-year Asheville hotel moratorium Posted on September 24, 2019 by Polly McDaniel No hotel approval applications will go before City Council for a year, under a hotel moratorium approved by Council at their Sept. 24 meeting. City staff will use this time to work with the Urban Land Institute Charlotte on a planning process to include two community engagement sessions, analysis of the hotel industry, [...] City Council sets public hearing to consider hotel moratorium Posted on September 10, 2019September 23, 2019 by Polly McDaniel Asheville City Council passed a motion Tuesday setting a Sept. 24 public hearing to consider a temporary moratorium on hotel development approvals within the City of Asheville. This moratorium would place a temporary hold on hotel development in Asheville for up to one year. In a Sept. 10 presentation to Council, City Attorney Brad Branham and [...] Team to craft concept plan for City-owned properties at Haywood Street and Page Avenue Posted on August 28, 2019August 27, 2019 by Polly McDaniel At their Aug. 27 meeting, Asheville City Council authorized City staff to enter into a contract to create a design plan to redevelop City-owned properties at Haywood Street and Page Avenue. The services provided by the Nelson Byrd Woltz team will include architecture, landscape architecture, real estate analysis, community engagement, civil engineering, urban planning, including transportation [...] More Small Area Plans News
Explore city data Public datasets and maps are available on the open data portal at data.ashevillenc.gov.
Schedule a mandatory Technical Review Committee pre-application meeting Schedule your required pre-application meeting for Level II, Level III, Conditional Zoning and Major Subdivision reviews.
Check whether your address is within city limits Search to see if it is within the City of Asheville's permitting jurisdiction.
Find what permits and licenses you need for your business Use Asheville's Open for Business wizard to find out what permits and licenses you will need and an estimate of permit fees.
City Council approves 1-year Asheville hotel moratorium Posted on September 24, 2019 by Polly McDaniel No hotel approval applications will go before City Council for a year, under a hotel moratorium approved by Council at their Sept. 24 meeting. City staff will use this time to work with the Urban Land Institute Charlotte on a planning process to include two community engagement sessions, analysis of the hotel industry, [...]
City Council sets public hearing to consider hotel moratorium Posted on September 10, 2019September 23, 2019 by Polly McDaniel Asheville City Council passed a motion Tuesday setting a Sept. 24 public hearing to consider a temporary moratorium on hotel development approvals within the City of Asheville. This moratorium would place a temporary hold on hotel development in Asheville for up to one year. In a Sept. 10 presentation to Council, City Attorney Brad Branham and [...]
Team to craft concept plan for City-owned properties at Haywood Street and Page Avenue Posted on August 28, 2019August 27, 2019 by Polly McDaniel At their Aug. 27 meeting, Asheville City Council authorized City staff to enter into a contract to create a design plan to redevelop City-owned properties at Haywood Street and Page Avenue. The services provided by the Nelson Byrd Woltz team will include architecture, landscape architecture, real estate analysis, community engagement, civil engineering, urban planning, including transportation [...]