Chazen’s community planning group helps communities visualize their future through creative land use strategies. Chazen currently serves as consulting planners and engineers to dozens of municipal planning, zoning and Town and Village Boards throughout the Hudson Valley, Capital District and North Country. In addition to reviewing development proposals for our municipal clients, we are experts in preparing comprehensive plans, waterfront revitalization plans, zoning ordinances, and related land use tools tailored to local circumstances. We are also experienced in preparing a wide range of non-regulatory tools to help implement local planning goals and objectives, including: community design guidelines, recreation and open space plans, economic development strategies, natural resource inventories, transportation plans, and capital improvement plans.
- Public participation & visioning processes
- Creative comprehensive planning & zoning strategies
- Waterfront revitalization plans
- Community design standards & performance-based zoning
- Development review & SEQRA support assistance
- In-house support for municipal planning & engineering staff
- Natural resource inventories & open space planning
- Sustainable groundwater planning studies
- Transportation planning
- Geographic information systems
- Grant writing & assistance
- Expert witness / litigation support
