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Strategic Planning
Our planners provide critical expertise at all stages of a project - from pre-acquisition to redevelopment. Our strategic planning services, including feasibility studies, DRI analysis, site comparisons, and due diligence reports, provide our clients with information and recommendations to help define opportunities and constraints associated with the project. Our capabilities in site planning, our multidisciplinary approach, and local presence in jurisdictions throughout Florida’s west coast are key ingredients that benefit our clients from the early stages of goal setting through implementation.
Master Plans & DRIs
Big plans require vision, and Johnson Engineering is built on decades of work by forward-looking visionaries. As population reaches capacity at the coastlines, the rural areas of Florida hold the potential for well-planned, well-designed new communities. Our planning team has performed conceptual planning, entitlements, development permitting, and monitoring for numerous Developments of Regional Impact and master planned communities. From residential development to regional commercial projects to mixed use centers and new communities, our clients benefit from this experience with the unique challenges and ever-changing legislative framework for large scale projects.
Community Planning
Every community is complex, defined by its history, size, climate, location, geography, and the people that live and work there. Community planning engages those with varied backgrounds and goals in a common effort to identify and achieve a vision for an area. Our team has a history of effectively creating community plans by relying on a philosophy that assumes collaboration is possible and a demonstrated ability to reconcile differences in terms of shared interest. We have the skills necessary to assess the political context of an area, provide strategic analyses, and implement recommendations to benefit the community planning process.
Comprehensive Planning and Zoning
The principles of zoning regulation established 1916 with the first Zoning Code in New York City were solidified with the landmark Euclid v. Ambler decision by the U.S. Supreme Court over eighty years ago, however the rules of the game are ever-changing. The same is true for the comprehensive land use policies rooted in Florida Growth Management Act of 1985, which change through yearly legislative action. Our planning team performs a wide range of services including those associated comprehensive plan amendments, Future Land Use Map amendments, rezonings, conditional uses, special exceptions, annexations, and variances. Using this experience, continuing education, and agency action monitoring, we are able to update and anticipate opportunities for our clients.
Corridor Planning
Our modes of travel and the paths on which we travel are of key significance to our quality of life. The roads, streets and highways are only a part of today’s transportation planning discipline. Our planners understand the value of complete streets, allowing comfort and accessibility for not only vehicle movement, but for foot traffic and bike traffic as well. Landscape designers, planners and engineers work together to ensure these travel ways are incorporated in a setting that includes lighting, durable plantings and street furnishings as infrastructure. Beyond the right-of-way, our planners factor the conditions, demographics, future modeling, and vision for a community to develop code and implementation strategies corridors to form a properly scaled street or road edge that is appropriate to the context, whether urban, suburban or rural.
Facility Planning
We are proud of a strong reputation built on our ability to plan, design, and develop facilities that require attention to unique challenges and specifications. We’ve worked closely with both public school districts and private schools, fire districts, airport authorities, parks and recreation agencies, churches, and nonprofit organizations from Naples to Pasco County to provide services from feasibility studies, master plans, site comparisons, site and circulation design, collocation and interlocal agreement assistance, through the zoning and permitting process to completion.
Sustainable Planning
The impacts of the built environment are significant and far-reaching. Planning for a more sustainable built environment requires a balance of basic social, economic, and ecological values. Our team remains knowledgeable of and participates in the ever-changing public policy surrounding sustainability and has offered expertise to a number of sustainable projects, including those pursuing LEED certification. We recognize that, in addition to limiting negative environmental impacts, sustainable design can reduce operating costs, increase marketability, improve employee productivity and occupant satisfaction, enhance asset value and profits, increase lease and rental rates, provide greater interest from investors, minimize strain on local infrastructure, and generally improve quality of life.
Local Government Assistance
With planners whose experience spans decades of public and private sector work, Johnson Engineering has capacity to help local governments and agencies with plans, code writing, application review, comprehensive plan amendments, and evaluation and appraisal reports to fulfill state mandates and local needs. The planners at Johnson Engineering have expertise in qualitative and quantitative analysis, population projections, findings of blight, and establishment of Community Redevelopment Areas, Enterprise Zones, and Tax Increment Financing districts. We have written policies and amended land development codes in communities across Southwest Florida on subjects including historic preservation, redevelopment incentives, architectural design standards, neighborhood compatibility, streetscape standards, and more. We understand the importance of working in an inclusive setting with agency staff and the public to promote public involvement and observe sunshine law requirements.
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