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