Preparing a Comprehensive Plan for a community requires a team with multi-disciplinary expertise and experience in land use planning, urban design, transportation, economics and demographics, land use regulations and implementation strategies, and public involvement techniques. Clarion Associates has extensive experience assisting a diverse variety of communities throughout the country in the preparation of comprehensive plans. Just as all communities are different, not all comprehensive plans are the same. They vary widely depending on the type of community and the issues that they face. Clarion's vast knowledge of all facets of land-use planning provides clients with some of the most experienced specialists in the nation for developing these important plans. Comprehensive Plan, Arapahoe County, Colorado This 806-square-mile county southeast of Denver is a mix of heavily urbanized districts, wide open rural areas, and small communities. The main planning challenge was to define appropriate policies needed to guide growth in the three distinct areas. The plan includes policies to address growth management, housing, economic development, public facilities, fiscal impacts, land conservation, and transportation. We coordinated an extensive public process, including three advisory committees and numerous public workshops. Clarion was retained to implement the plan, and to analyze the County's development regulations. Client: Arapahoe County Comprehensive Plan, Creve Coeur, Missouri Located near St. Louis, Creve Coeur is an old suburban city that hasn't changed its land-use planning for decades. But with the community nearly built-out and land-use patterns established, residents decided that a comprehensive plan was needed to maintain the livability of the city and to guide redevelopment efforts. The plan, developed by Clarion Associates, focuses on several major themes. To make the city more pedestrian-friendly, the plan includes policies and recommendations to guide construction of a network of walking/bicycling paths, connections between residential areas, schools, and activity centers. Another theme is protection of residential neighborhoods from traffic and inappropriate development. Guidelines for new development and redevelopment focus on maintaining community aesthetics. The center piece of the plan is a strategy to create a distinct town center. Client: City of Creve Coeur Comprehensive Plan, city of Fort Collins, Colorado Clarion principals led the team that prepared a new comprehensive plan and implementation strategy for this fast-growing community. "City Plan" was a landmark project for Fort Collins. Although known for its innovative approaches to planning, the city had never completed a unified Comprehensive Plan. The new approach includes a City Structure Plan that organizes the city's planning areas into four basic types: Neighborhoods, Districts, Corridors, and Edges. Clarion Associates also drafted an innovative new zoning code that completely revamped the city's noted Land Development Guidance System, and guided implementation of City Plan. Client: City of Fort Collins Comprehensive Plan Update, Manhattan, Kansas Clarion Associates has been retained to prepare a Comprehensive Plan update for the urban area surrounding the community of Manhattan, Kansas. A joint planning initiative of the City of Manhattan and Riley County, the update is intended to ensure that the plan continues to address the needs of the growing community, and provides guidance for future decision-making on land use, natural resources and the environment, transportation, infrastructure and services, and economic issues. Client: City of Manhattan and Riley County