Municipal
Planning Services
 LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. offer a complete scope of
planning services to municipalities. The LPGURP staff can act
as a municipalities “City Planner” and can perform all the
functions that an in-house planner would perform, such as
staffing at the municipality to answer citizens’ questions,
including inquiries about annexation, zoning, land use, and
development potential. LPG is happy to work with either
incorporated cities or unincorporated areas of a County.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. can perform duties such as
application review. In reviewing applications, LPG can review
for consistency with the Land Development Regulations (LDR)
and Comprehensive Plan as well as for consistency with any
other governing body, agency, or state statute. Application
review can be done for all types of development including
residential, commercial, industrial and public facilities.
LPGURP can also review plans at all stages of development,
including preliminary and final plats, and commercial and
industrial site plans. Plans review would include
verification of appropriate dimensional requirements such as
setbacks, parking, landscaping, irrigation, impervious
surface, buffers, floor area ratio, open space, and all other
applicable provisions of the code. LPG can write staff
reports, make of recommendations to the governing bodies, and
attend public hearings.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. has hosted a number of
visioning sessions. Visioning sessions are tailored to the
individual municipality and can cover a wide array of topics.
LPG has hosted visioning sessions for the development and
re-development of key areas of cities, for the creation of
Joint Planning Areas (JPA), for the creation of Interlocal
Agreements, and for the writing or updating of LDRs or
Comprehensive Plans. LPG uses a variety of consensus building
techniques.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. has experience with
submitting text amendments and map changes to the Florida
Department of Community Affairs (DCA). This experience
includes responding the Objections, Recommendations, Comments
(ORC) issued by the DCA. LPG is aware of current and upcoming
state mandates and changes to state status.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. can prepare Evaluation and
Appraisal Reports (EAR) that are then submitted to the
Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for review. Included in
this function would be the hosting of workshops with elected
and appointed officials in a public participation forum to
identify needs within a community. LPG will familiarize
themselves with the goals and objectives of a Comprehensive
Plan and analyze each policy to assess whether it should be
maintained, revised, or deleted. Further, LPG can amend the
Comprehensive Plan in order to meet the identified needs of
the municipality.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. has created a number of
Community Redevelopment Areas (CRA) and worked on updating CRA
documents when necessary. LPG can hold workshops for public
participation and aid the municipality in prioritizing needs.
LPG is familiar with the Mainstreet USA program and has
developed signage, way finding systems, icons, and logos to
enhance the City center. LPGURP has also worked with
communities in the design, phasing, and cost estimating of
parks and recreational facilities.
LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. offers a full array of
mapping support services such as the maintenance of zoning and
land use maps and map series for land use amendments. LPG
Urban and Regional Planners, Inc. is proficient in the use of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze, and then
display pictorially, various aspects that effect a
municipally. Examples include the analysis and creation of
maps to show vacant lands, availability of affordable housing,
taxable property values, and proximity of locations to urban
services. In using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
LPGURP can access both current and historical aerial
photography, FEMA flood zone maps, topography, wetland areas,
and soil types. |
