Land Use Plan Amendments and Rezonings

We provide strategies and approaches that can help meet a client’s goals. We prepare land use plan amendment applications, including all of the supporting maps and graphics. Our amendment applications include statements of justification that provide ample technical reasons for supporting requests. In addition, we can assist you with overall project management, including developing detailed timelines for all critical events and deadlines in the process.

Due Diligence

Our team of professional planners can provide you with all of the technical or background research, including reviewing comprehensive plans and zoning codes to determine the effect of adopted language on a development proposal; researching similar projects and outcomes through the review and approval process; or delving into the land use and zoning history of a property. We are efficient and effective researchers who quickly complete the legwork for you.

Zoning Regulations

Our in-depth expertise and experience in writing and applying zoning codes and land development regulations can assist you in formulating effective arguments on behalf of your client, or in identifying needed changes to existing regulations that can facilitate your client’s project. We take the lead from you, using your concepts to create technical zoning language.

Public Outreach and
Consensus Building

Oftentimes, reaching out to the public to inform them of the client’s development proposal requires more than a meeting invitation. Our experience in structuring public outreach programs are effective in informing and educating the public about a particular project, always with the goal of gaining support for the development.

GIS, Mapping and Graphics

We offer a full array of mapping and illustration capabilities. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we create a variety of maps that integrate a broad spectrum of data. GIS mapping exceeds simple aerial photographs and can include, for example, graphical representations of infrastructure, physical and socioeconomic data, and other information that can reinforce your client’s case or support a public meeting presentation. We also provide animated motion graphics to illustrate developments in 3-D.

Site Capacity Studies

Our land development regulation expertise ensures that your project will comply with government requirements and that you will avoid surprises. We can also advise you on the local government regulations that can be most likely waived or varied to meet your pro-forma. The TMPG team will be with you throughout each step of the application process and local government proceedings.

Expert Witness Testimony

Michele Mellgren, AICP, provides expert witness testimony to assist you in establishing a record, just in case it is needed. She carefully develops the argument and supports it with citations from the comprehensive plan and zoning code. She is a leading planning, zoning and land use expert, and has qualified in circuit court as an expert witness.

Animation and Modeling

Visually powerful explanations of variations of proposed land use or zoning changes through 3-D modeling and animation can help courtrooms, elected officials and citizens understand important concepts.