Community Planning
Community planning is a proactive and iterative process involving partnership between communities, agency staff, interest groups, planners, and local leaders. Planning Communities staff have proven experience collaborating and engaging stakeholders in projects with local and national interest to identify plan and project solutions that best fit the community context. We bring strong backgrounds in neighborhood, community, area, master and comprehensive planning and a balanced focus to community planning efforts. Planning Communities staff are highly skilled in facilitation methods including consensus building, charettes, confidential interviews, surveys, focus groups, workshops, hearings and other specific techniques.Community planning services include:
- Visioning/Scenario Planning
- Community Outreach & Facilitation
- Community Asset Mapping/Facilities Mapping
- Comprehensive Planning
- Evaluation and Appraisal Reports (EARs)
- Master/Small Area Plans
