Planning
Preparing a plan for a community requires a multi-disciplinary team with a wide variety of land use, design, mobility, economics, and outreach expertise. Miller Planning Associates is an effective team collaborator, helping communities prepare their vision, understand existing conditions, weigh alternatives, and decide on goals and strategies to achieve their desired futures.
At Miller Planning Associates, implementation is an integral part of the planning process, not an afterthought. Our considerable experience writing zoning and development regulations informs practical policy formulation to effectively achieve community goals. Plan policies are developed to a level of detail to ensure a clear understanding of how they will be implemented.
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Zoning & Development Codes
Miller Planning Associates specializes in zoning and development codes, particularly preparing responsive, user- friendly development regulations that are easy to use and understand. We have worked in a wide array of diverse settings, including urban centers, small towns, coastal communities, and rural counties, giving the team a depth of understanding that allows us to focus quickly on solutions for various community objectives, whether the focus is to create vibrant, mixed-use centers, natural resource protection and agricultural preservation, or anything in between.
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Urban Design
Miller Planning Associates partners with architects, urban designers, and landscape architects to work with communities to understand their design visions and translate them into workable sets of guidelines, rules, and regulations. We facilitate understandings of community design expectations, encourage creativity, facilitate interpretation of design requirements, and lead applicants and their designers to designs that are harmonious with community values and conditions. With our partners, we have prepared design guidelines and written design objective standards for residential, mixed-use, commercial, and industrial in a variety of settings, each responding to community vernacular and market conditions.
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Community Outreach
Successful planning requires a collaborative relationship among the general public, community representatives, the planning team, and decision makers. As such, community engagement is at the core of all our work. We rely on traditional and new media to engage a broad spectrum of the community and build interest, participation, and commitment. We use a multifaceted approach, tailored to the community, to bring people into the process and give each person an opportunity to engage in a collaborative and constructive format.