Comprehensive Planning

Amarach Planning Services is a niche consulting firm focused on creating and preserving affordable housing. It specializes in the intersection of long-range planning and economics, using data-driven insights and community-driven understanding of local needs to create sustainable housing plans and development projects. The firm guides government agencies and developers in addressing critical housing needs.

Affordable housing development consultingCode rewritesFeasibility studiesfinancing strategieshousing needs assessmentsMarket AnalysisPro forma modelingpublic engagementZoning and entitlement strategies

Ascent Environmental, Inc. (dba Ascent) is a California-based environmental, design, and planning consulting firm. It provides full-service environmental, planning, and design consulting services, combining science, design, and planning to develop interdisciplinary solutions for projects involving compliance, ecological restoration, and community revitalization. The firm works with cities, counties, regional governments, and other clients across California.

biological studiesCEQA/NEPA/TRPA environmental analysisclimate adaptation planningCommunity Engagement Facilitationcommunity planningCultural Resourcesgreenhouse gas reduction planninghousing policyregulatory permittingresource management planningUrban Design

Benchmark Planning is an urban planning, design, and economic development firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Established in 1982 and incorporated in 1989, it describes itself as the longest tenured urban planning firm in North Carolina, with over 40 years of experience advising municipalities, counties, and regional organizations across 14 states.

development ordinance writingeconomic development planninggeospatial analysis and mappingMarket Analysispublic outreach and engagementTransportation Planningurban design and placemaking

Dynamic Planning + Science bridges natural and built environments, delivering innovative solutions that promote resilience, safety, and sustainable growth. The company specializes in Comprehensive Planning, Regulatory Affairs, Emergency Management, and Data Visualization, and is dedicated to empowering communities with tailored solutions, professionalism, and commitment to success.

Data VisualizationEmergency ManagementRegulatory Affairs

EHI Consultants was founded in 1995 to provide planning and design services. The firm is an established planning and engineering group of professionals serving communities across Kentucky and Ohio, with capabilities to program, plan, design and implement planning projects from neighborhoods to transportation planning, as well as engineering projects from highway design to drainage plans for public and private clients.

Bikeway planningBrownfield remediationCharrette FacilitationCommunity engagement strategiesCorridor plansDrainage, grading and erosion control designHydraulic modeling and systems designmaintenance of traffic plansNeighborhood/small area plansPreliminary site assessmentspump designresiliency planningRight of way plansroadway designsite developmentSocio-economic analysisTreatment process designVisioning planswater quality

Egret & Ox Planning is a minority-owned small business focusing on urban planning and community development. Operated by Principal Planner and owner Todd Vanadilok, AICP, as a one-person consultancy run as a virtual office, it serves clients flexibly and responsively. Founded in 2017, it provides services including community meetings, community outreach, and graphically enhanced maps, exhibits, and documents, working with communities from urban neighborhoods to small towns and counties.

capacity-buildingcorridor planningData VisualizationDevelopment and Site Plan ReviewDocument LayoutsDowntown Planningeconomic developmentEquitable TOD (eTOD)GIShousingmappingMarket Analysismeeting design and facilitationneighborhood planningstrategic planningSubarea PlanningTax Increment Financing (TIF)Transit Oriented Development (TOD)Zoning and Municipal Ordinances

Environmental Planning & Design is a planning and landscape architecture firm that provides a range of services and works on challenging and innovative projects, including park master plans, comprehensive plans, zoning ordinance updates, trail and greenway plans, and feasibility studies. The firm has been recognized with numerous awards from organizations such as the American Planning Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Urban Land Institute.

brownfield assessmentFeasibility studiesgreen infrastructurelandscape architecturemaster planningplanningzoning ordinance updates

Five Rule Rural Planning specializes in strategic and thoughtful methods to protect, energize and build bright futures for rural communities. The company strengthens rural communities through empowerment, education and advocacy, providing communities with tools and confidence, training and advice on land use planning, and partnering with local governments. It focuses on towns in rural Nebraska and small town America.

Advocacyblight and substandard studiesgeneral redevelopment plansGIS mappingmaintenance code enforcementsubdivision regulationstrainingzoning ordinance development