URBAN DEVELOPMENT – Bamenda City Council

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Director of Urban Development

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Placed under the authority of a Director, the urban development department is responsible:

To initiate any action by means of the prerogatives conferred on it by the provisions contained in this chart;

Implement the institution’s policy on planning and investments; under the supervision of the secretary general;

Develop and update planning documents;

To monitor the application of the provisions of urban planning documents and development plans;

To carry out studies of general or sectorial scope, related to the major projects;

To define, implement and monitor the implementation of structuring projects infrastructure, equipment, networks and real estate cultural heritage;

Ensure the social and environmental engineering of the projects;

Develop and implement environmental, water and sanitation policy sustainable development;

To develop the addressing plan and the cadastre in collaboration with the technical services;

Provide training and technology monitoring in urban planning, networks various, equipment and sustainable development;

Participate in building relationships with administrations and partners in development Coordinate the implementation of cooperation projects, cells and unit of special project management;

Support municipalities and urban actors in urban planning actors;

To permit the collection and archiving of hydrological data;

Design and animate appropriate hydrological mathematical models;

Produce flood forecast data.

Implement the policy for the maintenance of real estate assets;

To apply the prescriptions of urban planning documents;

To examine the files of town planning acts;

To enforce building standards, in collaboration with services and administrations concerned;

Develop and implement the public health and hygiene policy;

Maintain green spaces and cemeteries;

To handle all the revenue and expenditure operations relating to its field of competence
STUDIES, PLANNING AND CONTRACTS SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of studies, planning, and contracts is in charge of:

Identifying infrastructural development needs for the city;

Carry out participative development needs in consultation with the population;

Coordinate development strategies and studies with other councils and state authorities;

Plan and follow up the execution of strategic and operational development plans;

Conduct and elaborate project feasibility studies in collaboration with consultants and state agencies;

Supervise and conduct all internal studies required prior to procurements of services

Carry out technical studies and designs of projects and follow up the execution

Participate in the Elaboration of annual and monthly project execution and contract award plans;

Participate in ensuring the regularity of contracts awarded by the council to third parties

Participate in ensuring conformity to the procedures provided for in public procurement regulations;

Participate in drafting and verifying draft purchase and contracts letters;

Establish notifications and service orders;

Participate in acceptance of the work and supplies.
URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban planning and development is in charge of:

Implement the prescriptions of urban planning documents;

To study the town planning acts files, in relation to the services and administrations concerned;

Monitor the development of economic activity zones or housing zones;

To ensure a technical watch in the fields of town planning, construction and of the environment ;

Implement the land policy in relation to services and organizations concerned;

Ensure the maintenance of municipal buildings and public facilities;

To inform citizens about the regulation of construction;

To monitor development operations undertaken by parastatals, urban planning and real estate development (SIC);

To prepare the necessary documents for the land and technical management of the layouts;

Supervise the feasibility studies of private urban planning projects;

To develop and disseminate spatial analyses of the information collected;

Ensure a technological watch on the information and collection tools of urban data;

collect, exploit, process, disseminate and store data(economic, financial, social, demographic, transport, housing, land; equipment, infrastructures, roads, various networks and the environment)

To develop and monitor the cartographic projects of the city of Bamenda;

Ensure a technological watch on the information and collection tools of the urban data;

Develop and monitor addressing operations in relation to the services and administrations concerned;

To develop and monitor cadastre operations in relation to services and administrations concerned.
URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban design and architecture is in charge of:

To design, carry out and follow studies of infrastructural projects

Urban structuring in coherence with the objectives of sustainable urban development;

To keep watch on construction and maintenance techniques and procedures

Ensure the development of green infrastructure;

Initiate, execute and supervise studies of infrastructures proposed by the master plan and Land Use Plans;

To identify with the Cadastre services the land situation of the land situated on the proposed rights of way;

To enforce the procedure of expropriation for reasons of public utility on the identified lands;

To propose possible arrangements or compensation with the beneficiaries rights of these lands, in partnership with the Cadastre services;

Put in place measures to safeguard the liberated right-of-way (Materialization of the tracks in the field, at least in stabilized earth).

Plan and design new urban neighborhoods;

Follow up and control urban spatial extension;

Programme development operations

conduct technical and funding studies

provide information on council development policies

ensure the design and management of public spaces

prepare architectural plans for public buildings

Prepare architectural programs for urban operations

ensure that urban architectural studies and plans are effectively implemented

participate in the evaluation of building permit files

advise on architectural solutions based on regulatory constraints;

design and realize building and development projects;

monitor and control of realization of studies and projects conducted by external contractors;

organize the work of designers;
URBAN MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban mobility and transports in charge of:

advise hierarchy on activities relating to urban mobility;

ensure the proper functioning of road signs

design road sign plans

follow up and implement traffic plan

follow up the implementation of the convention on the management of public lighting

ensure fluid circulation through the management of car parks and road junctions with traffic lights

define conditions for the organization and running of transport systems

introduce and follow up the procedures for contracts and public service delegation

ensure the administrative and financial follow up of public service delegations and contracts with exploiters

design a guideline for activities and management indicators

animate network of exploiters and relations with delegates

organize an interface between users and exploiters of road networks

ensure prospective sectorial and legal watch over the economy of the transport system

to design, implement and monitor studies and projects in the field of travel, sustainable transportation, parking and regulation;

to monitor and appreciate, in particular, the impacts of development projects networks and transport equipment;

to elaborate transport organization and regulation documents;

The chief of service shall work in collaboration with motor park managers
CITY GREENS AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of city greens and environmental policy is in charge of:

implement the Green Plan;

implement landscaping and beautification actions;

create and maintain gardens, parks and green spaces;

implement measures for the sustainable management of green waste produced in the city ;

create municipal nurseries and regulate the installation of private nurseries;

To follow actions related to the conservation of classified natural areas.

organize and supervise garden creation and maintenance works;

ensure proper upkeep of gardens and green spaces;

organize work to care for plants in green spaces and gardens;

follow-up outsourced works;

carry out gardening and care for plants according to prescriptions;

carry out public gardens maintenance works;

ensure routine maintenance of used tools;

ensure sector monitoring and the promotion of environmental policy;

follow up and assess the environmental policy;

enhance partnerships;
THE TOWN PLANNING ACTS SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service the town planning acts service is in charge of:

Promoting the implementation of all town planning acts according to the legal dispositions in force;

Creating and ensuring the functioning of a one stop shop for the award of these acts in collaboration with the different stakeholders involved;

The sensitization of the population on the acquisition of town planning acts;

In collaboration with other services ensure the operational implementation of town planning documents;

In collaboration with Municipal Police ensure the respect of development and construction norms and exercise policing powers in the construction domain;

Ensure fluent administrative treatment of town planning acts files.

This service comprises the following Bureau:

Building permit Bureau

Architecture Bureau

Finance Clerk
HYGIENE, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DRAINAGE SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of waste management, hygiene and drainage is in charge of:

to elaborate, and to apply, the measures relating to compliance with the rules of hygiene and public health;

to monitor the collection and treatment of household waste and other wastes, and related contracts;

to instruct the regulatory procedures relating to hygiene in relation to the bodies concerned;

Ensure the cleanliness of public spaces (streets, markets, public places, etc.);

to control the operation of building sanitation equipment housing and economic activities in relation to services concerned;

fight against various pathogens;

to implement information, awareness and education campaigns in terms of hygiene and sanitation;

To study and carry out the construction work of the primary and secondary storm water drainage

Participate in the construction work of hydraulic structures of large size scales;

Ensure sulphase run-off flow of primary and secondary storm, water and drainages.

This service shall comprise of:

BUREAU OF SEWAGE DRAINAGE, headed by a Bureau Head.
CEMETERY AND LAND RESERVED PROTECTION SERVICE
Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of Cemetery and Land Reserved Protection is in charge of:

Conceiving and promoting the implementation of a land reserve master plan for the city council;

Ensuring the operational and physical protection of council landed properties;

Evaluating security risks and protection needs of council landed properties;

Surveying the city and identifying areas to be acquired and protected by the city council with relation to the spatial development of the city;

Ensuring the deliverance of land rights and titles on council lands;

Sensitizing the population on the need to protect council lands and risky areas;

Table burial applications;

Allocate areas for burial;

Keep the registers of burial

Manage the cemetery staff and ensure the application of rules;

Record graves and burials;

Receive materials and maintain working tools;

Organize the work of gravediggers.

This service include:

THE CEMETERY BUREAU

THE LAND RESERVED PROTECTION BUREAU

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