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Permit Applications

Application forms are available for your convenience; however, the Planning Department recommends to schedule a pre-application meeting to sit down with City of Franklin staff to discuss your project and application materials.   Please contact the Planning Department at 414-425-4024 or E-Mail to schedule a pre-application meeting.

 

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Administrative Review

Home-Based Business: To run low-intensity businesses out of home.

Home-Based Business Form
Home-Based Business Standards

Animal Permit

For property owners who would like to raise and keep outdoor animals.

Animal Permit Application

Common Council

Comprehensive Master Plan Amendment:  Process for changes to the City of Franklin 2025 Comprehensive Master Plan.

Comprehensive Master Plan Amendment Form

Concept Review:  General staff review and comments from the Common Council.  Only preliminary plans are required.

Concept Review Form

Conditional Use:  For land uses listed as conditional in their respective zoning district.

Conditional Use Form
Conditional Use Standards

Easement:  Conservation and landscape bufferyard easements may be required for subdivisions, certified survey maps, condominium plats or site plans.

Easement Form

Map Amendment (rezoning):  Change parcels from one zoning district to another.

Map Amendment (Rezoning) Form  

Planned Development District:  Planned Development Districts create a new zoning district overlay over an existing base zoning district.

Planned Development District Form

Text Amendment:  Process for modifying text within the Unified Development Ordinance.

Text Amendment Form

Floodplain Land Use Permit

For development in flood-prone areas.

Floodplain Land Use Permit Form

Land Division

Affidavit of Correction (Plat): For correcting errors on plats.

Affidavit of Correction Form

Condominium Plat: Process for creating or amending a condominium.

Condominium Plat Form

Land Combination:  Process of combining parcels.

Land Combination Form

Minor Land Division (Certified Survey Map): Process of creating no more than 4 parcels of land.

Minor Land Division Form

Preliminary Plat: Process of creating more than 4 parcels of land.

Preliminary Plat Form

Final Plat: The second step to creating a subdivision of 4 or more parcels of land.

Final Plat Form

Right-of-Way Vacation: For requests to vacate public right-of-way.

Right-of-Way Vacation Form

Other Applications

Building Move: Process of moving a building/structure from one parcel to another.

Building Move Form

Miscellaneous: For miscellaneous processes.

Miscellaneous Form

Signs

Sign Permit: For new signs, changes of sign face, or relocation of signs that do not require Plan Commission approval.

Sign Permit Form

Sign Review: To allow for more than one monument sign per lot frontage.

Sign Review Form

Master Sign Program: Alternative procedure to encourage a higher level of design and amenity than is possible to achieve under applicable sign regulations.

Master Sign Program Form

Site Plan

For developments that are permitted in their respective zoning district.

Site Plan Form

Temporary Use

Activities with limited duration. 

Temporary Use Form

Variance and Exceptions

Natural Resource Special Exception (NRSE):  For exceptions to natural resources protection standards.

NRSE Form 
NRSE Review Criteria

Variance: For exceptions and appeals to certain requirements of the Unified Development Ordinance (except natural resources protection).

Variance Form 
Findings in the Review of Variances
Affidavit

Zoning Compliance

For permitted uses/businesses which are moving into an existing building.

Zoning Compliance Form