The Mellgren Planning Group is a respected team of conscientious, talented and experienced professionals whose high-caliber work and professional integrity are sought by local governments to fulfill their planning needs.
Our team’s experience at the senior management and line positions has provided us with both an administrative and hands-on understanding for completing long-range and current planning, code enforcement, engineering oversight, housing issues, and building department operations in a variety of communities.
Our expertise in the neighborhood master and small-area development plan preparation, as well as plans for redevelopment and housing have helped rapidly growing and redeveloping municipalities gain control over current development issues, and create long-range plans for future growth and development
Our community outreach and visioning programs have enabled fractured communities to achieve consensus on current and future development and move forward with community development and redevelopment.
The Mellgren Planning Group successfully provides governments with:
- Comprehensive Plans that are feasible, relevant and clearly address future land uses, growth patterns, changing demographics and future tax base, as well the local government’s ability to provide services and achieve the desired outcomes.
- Evaluation and Appraisal Reports that help successfully address major community land use planning issues through implementation of their comprehensive plan.
- Corridor Studies that analyze land use compatibility, capital improvement plans, blight elimination, urban design, access management, parking strategies, transit-oriented development, signage control, CPTED and implementing LDRs.
- Zoning Code and Land Development Regulations that are prepared by professional with an extensive code administration background and LDR expert witness experience who prepare a critical analysis of each code. Our LDRs are designed to achieve your community’s vision. We organize compatible codes so that all areas “talk” to each other. All facets of your code are formulated for intuitive organization and clarity, and use state-of-the-art expandable formats for future additions. Our codes also address community appearance, as well as process improvements and legal issues.
- Development Review so that policies, land uses, zoning activities and design guidelines are appropriately joined to ordinance requirements, private market development proposals, and professional land-planning practices. We have supported local governments with our expertise in LDR administration, development review, private sector entitlements and development planning. We prepare thorough staff reports and can represent staff before review boards. We also serve as expert witnesses for local governments. Planning departments with staff shortages also have used our temporary and ongoing on-site staffing services to continue to deliver outstanding customer service.
- GIS, Mapping and Animation Services. Local governments have relied on our resources and experience with GIS mapping, modeling and analysis to assess environmental risks, evaluate alternative growth scenarios, analyzed facility siting and understand tax base changes. Our experienced GIS and mapping professionals have incorporated information, such as demographics, rights of way, roadways, structures, environmental features and places of historic interest, into map overlays that enable local governments to more clearly understand the changes within their municipal boundaries. We also use SketchUp – a 3-D animation program – Photoshop and Illustrator to supplement visual concepts during public meetings.
- Grant Writing Services to help local governments secure additional funding for park and recreation facilities, public safety, community meetings, infrastructure and other community development needs.
- Public Participation and Consensus Building to develop a vision for a community’s future, resolve local policy issues, resolve development disputes, and build consensus on public policies.
- Temporary Planning Services for special project management, concurrency reviews, and to assist during unusually heavy workloads.
- Full-time Planning and Zoning Services for newly formed towns and cities, enabling the governments to cost-effectively afford quality planning and regulatory services.
- Resident Customer Service. While serving local governments with planning, zoning and other services, we naturally come into contact with their citizens. Our policy is to consistently provide exemplary customer service and the same quality of solutions as if your residents were our neighbors.
