Our strengths were all built upon almost two decades of being immersed in communities of all sizes while preparing comprehensive plans.

During this experience, we began to learn that there was a huge disconnect between the academicians that pollute our planning profession with acronyms and the average Joe in Anywhere, America.  In meetings large and small, to learning big things from people we never met in public forums emerged a level of understanding in planning that only our forefathers knew.  And that was planning was people, period!

We learned that implementing our plans wouldn’t occur through the use of fancy acronyms only the planning professionals could understand and not Joe. Promoting good growth or community change, we eventually learned, wouldn’t be due to zoning or fancy strategies like TND, performance zoning, form-based zoning, or any other “du jour” methods introduced into our professional on an almost daily basis.

The success of plans would be derived only if people understood the plans we wrote.  So we’ve learned to take baby steps in every community we’re lucky to work in.  If the people get it, we let ‘em have it.  If they don’t, we give them what they need most: A Plan they can understand.