Starting conversations, listening and creating plans that can be fully implemented.

Our goal is to successfully address your community’s unique concerns and to create a plan that can be fully implemented. To that end, RPI Consulting carefully considers fiscal limitations, local economics, land use, infrastructure, priorities and stakeholder expectations.

The people who live and work in your community have a strong voice in the planning process. We engage the public early and often to gather feedback, learn aspirations and vent frustrations.

This open dialog is key to developing well-supported strategies and collaboration among community organizations, regional entities and the local government. With everyone on board, implementation becomes a matter of synchronized teamwork, free from roadblocks.

Past Projects:
City of Glenwood Springs, CO; City of Leadville & Lake County, CO; Grand County, UT; Gunnison County, CO; La Plata County, CO; Rio Blanco County, CO; Town of Bayfield, CO; Town of Blue River, CO; Town of Buena Vista, CO; Town of Carbondale, CO; Town of Meeker, CO; Town of Pagosa Springs, CO; Town of Silverton & San Juan County, CO

CASE STUDIES

Comprehensive Plan Rewrite and Land Use Code Assessment

Town of Carbondale, Colorado
RPI Consulting provided a framework for achieving a sustainable future at the local level with strategies that align this Roaring Fork Valley town’s community, environment and economy. The plan delivers general guidance and incorporates expectations about community character, land use and fiscal/budgetary sustainability. It also contains ideas for optimizing pedestrian/bike mobility through a continuous, well-connected system of streets, sidewalks and pathways for safe vehicle-free travel. Since the plan’s geographical scope included the town and a three-mile radius encompassing unincorporated land, we integrated the county comprehensive plan and added an approach to intergovernmental cooperation.

Services:

Strategic Comprehensive Planning
Intergovernmental Cooperation and Three-Mile Radius Plan
Bike and Pedestrian Mobility Plan
Land Use Code Assessment
Framework for Achieving Community Character, Land Use and Fiscal/Budgetary Sustainability at the Local Level

General Plan Update

Grand County, Utah
With thousands of acres of wilderness as a tourism draw, Grand County sought to update its outlook on the future with help from RPI Consulting. The resulting one-stop, countywide general plan unites diverse communities, from the economic engine of Moab to rural centers like Cisco to remote lands in southeast Utah. During the update, the team evaluated and modified previous policies and established new ones to reflect evolving opinions about transportation, self-sufficiency, US 191 cleanup and the cost and benefits of sprawling versus compact development patterns. The plan and its land use map define goals, strategies and timelines. They also align the groups and organizations responsible for implementing initiatives.

Services provided:

One-Stop Countywide General Plan
Economic Development Plan
Future Development Fiscal Impact Study
Future Land Use Plan
Policy Analysis and Update
Plan Implementation Goals, Strategies and Timeline
Identification of Key Implementation Partners

Coordinated Comprehensive Plans

Lake County and City of Leadville, Colorado
Seeking a road map for the future, the city and county turned to RPI Consulting for customized comprehensive plans and land use code assessments with detailed implementation steps. The plans contain an economic growth element that lists strategies and builds on the community assessment from the Colorado Main Street Program and the Lake County Economic Development Corporation. Both plans contain bike and pedestrian mobility elements, complete with maps and conceptual designs for safer, more attractive non-vehicle travel. Each plan includes a future land use scope outlining needed zoning changes. Since the plans were developed in tandem, intergovernmental cooperation is cemented with shared policies and direction for consolidating services between the city and county.