The Directorate of Planning and Organization is affiliated with the following departments:

• The Department of Organization and Secretization.
• The Department of Lands and Acquisitions.
• The Department of Building Licensing.
• The Department of Naming and Numbering.
• The Department of Architectural Heritage and Antiquities.
• The Department of Surveying. And drawing.

The Directorateisprovidingthe followingservices and duties:

1. Implementing the vision and strategy of the municipality regarding planning and developing a comprehensive development plan for the city Madaba, in line with modern standards for city growth and reviewing them periodically, and developing strategies and policies regulating the city’s urban components.
2. Implementing the outcomes of the city’s growth plan in the form of detailed organizational plans at all levels.
3. Supervisingthe preparationof studies of the reality of organization in the city of Madaba and developing and implementing special plans to improve this reality.
4. Supervision. To prepare studies related to the city’s expansion vision in accordance with the strategic directions of the planning axes and centers.
5. Supervising the implementation of expropriation plans for projects that the municipality plans to implement, and supervising the implementation of legal procedures for this purpose.
6. Implementing requestsAmending the regulation, granting the status of use, amending provisions, abolishing and creating streets, and studying green areas.
7. Preparing zoning projects and objecting to building permit transactions outside the regulation.
8. Preparing, archiving and maintaining organizational plans of various types and locations in coordination with GIS.
9. Implementing the naming and numbering system and the instructions issued thereunder in coordination with the Department of Geographic Information Systems via the GIS system.
10. Supervising the Issuing construction licenses within the boundaries of the Greater Madaba Municipality, and ensuring compliance with the legislation regulating it.
11. Monitoring and studying the curve of urban development in the municipality and Kasbah areas and providing the necessary recommendations to direct urbanization to keep pace with the growth of the city.
12. Preparing studies related to the movement of licenses for professions and advertisements in the city of Madaba, and ensuring that they are directed in accordance with the applicable legislation.
13. Following up on the work and decisions of the District Committee. for buildings and professions, and ensure their implementation by the relevant regions and departments.
14. Supervising the issuance of profession and advertisement licenses within the municipal boundaries in coordination with the profession licensing department.
15. Ensuring the implementation of procedures for regulating and licensing billboards in accordance with applicable legislation.
16. Scrutinizing all decisions of the local committees for organization and buildings, and ensuring the accuracy of legal procedures.And technical matters in accordance with the powers of the mayor, and considering inspectors’ objections to the decisions of local committees in the regions.
17. Updating land secretions on a daily basis and providing them to the relevant organizational units.
18. Participating in the preparation of the strategic, development and investment plan.
19. Preparing for the comprehensive development plan project.