URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
Weston & Sampson’s planners can make your community stronger and more resilient by helping you plan. We can work with you to build a new vision for your community or bring in strategic expertise for specific planning issues.
Our planners offer decades of experience and success supporting government, nonprofit, and private-sector clients with critical services such as:
- Strategic, comprehensive, and master planning
- Policy analysis and adoption for land use, zoning, and environmental management
- Environmental planning for climate change and resiliency, natural hazard mitigation, and water resources
- Transportation alternatives
- Conservation, open space, and recreation planning
- Historic preservation
- Community outreach, equitable engagement, virtual engagement, and facilitation
- GIS mapping
- Data collection and analysis
- Expert testimony and peer reviews
- Advice on project and infrastructure financing through grants, enterprise programs, public-private partnerships, and bond-issue support
- Grant identification and writing, management, reporting
Planning is critical for successful ventures and thriving communities; it leverages limited resources and local knowledge to find thoughtful, innovative, and cost-effective solutions. Our planning team includes experts in project management, public policy, place-making, and equitable community outreach, backed by the knowledge and capabilities of Weston & Sampson’s team of engineers, scientists, and design professionals. We can even help you find and respond to grant opportunities to help fund your projects.
We look forward to discussing your ideas and objectives to help you achieve the results you are looking for. See what communities and organizations like yours have achieved.
Dorchester County Greenbelt Master Plan - By Kim Morganello, Lucas Hernandez and Rachel Cotter, RLA. Dorchester County, South Carolina, is home to diverse ecosystems, including swamps, blackwater rivers, bottomland hardwood forests, longleaf pine savannahs and tidal marshes. Residents and visitors can partake in outdoor recreational activities across the county’s vast park system, trails, waterways and forests. The county, however, has undergone significant growth and development in recent years, and has embraced the challenge of managing rapid urban growth while also trying to mitigate environmental damage and degradation.
Equity-Driven Climate Action: Connecticut’s Path to a Resilient, Net-Zero Future - Figure 1: The impacts of climate change, like this severe inland flooding from extreme precipitation, are impacting communities across the country (Weston & Sampson).