It Takes A Planner to Create Stronger, More Equitable, and Resilient Communities
Planning is elected leaders’ most effective tool for managing growth, navigating change, and making tough decisions facing communities, like where to invest in transportation, housing, and parks.
Powered by community planners’ data-driven insights, expertise, and sense of residents’ needs, the planning process helps communities define their goals and a path to achieving them.
A plan is a roadmap that helps leaders make informed decisions about what residents — and the local economy — need to thrive.
WHY DO COMMUNITIES NEED PLANNERS?
Long-term Vision
Planners see a broader view, understanding how policy decisions like reconnecting communities cut off from essential services by highways can impact a community now and into the future.
Expertise
Planners are trained professionals with a deep knowledge of the field, best practices, and case studies. They provide elected leaders with forward-thinking insights to handle unforeseen opportunities and challenges like how to deploy a windfall of stimulus dollars or helping communities prepare for extreme heat.
Data-driven Approach
Planners’ recommendations are backed by extensive research, community conversations, and deep analysis of data sets from across multiple sources. Planners distill this data, translating findings and revealing insights like which neighborhoods have too few housing options and transit connections.
