Burnham Planning & Development is familiar with implementing community engagement principles that communicate community benefit and build coalitions of support for development projects and have established strong relationships with organizations and individuals to help facilitate open discussions and bring about positive project outcomes.
Client Advocacy
Burnham Planning & Development represents clients interests on local policy issues, providing technical comments on municipal General or Specific Plans, drafting responses on environmental impact reports, preparing responses on city land use initiatives such as density, affordable housing, code changes and development fees, partnering with developer lobbyists to formulate a project communication strategy, and making presentations to decision-making bodies, including boards, commissions, councils to communicate client positions.
Navigating Agency Approvals
Burnham Planning & Development collaborates with architects and developers to prepare the application and various documents required for government agency approvals, with a focus on the approach that will result in the most prudent agency approval, and tracks the status of each step of the approval process and performs strategic follow-up to ensure Project milestones are met. Effective coordination with government agencies, stakeholders, organizations, and individuals that have a direct interest in a proposed action result in smooth approval processes.
Quality Control
Burnham Planning & Development reviews proposals, site plans, design sets, planning applications, environmental assessments, parking calculations, and other development-related documents to provide an independent assessment and peer review to ensure they are consistent with the client’s strategy.
Project Design
Burnham Planning & Development facilitates an integrated design process involving clients and stakeholders to solve complex design problems, resulting in design solutions as important for their elegance and nuance as for their civic impact.
Team Assembly
Burnham Planning & Development identifies needed skills and strengths necessary to design particular types of projects and facilitates the consultant/subconsultant selection process on behalf of the client to bring an architect, designer, engineer or other specialty consultants to the project development team. If necessary, project management of any or all consultants or sub consultants can also be provided.
