Planning, zoning, floodplain, and municipal consulting services.
LandSage takes on discrete assignments and project components that require land-use judgment, municipal process knowledge, research, data analysis, and clear written work products.
Planning & land-use advisory
Research and analysis that helps a client understand the governing land-use framework, the administrative path, and the practical implications for a plan, property, project, or policy decision.
Typical assignments
- Zoning and development-ordinance analysis
- Property due diligence and preliminary constraint screens
- Development and subdivision review support
- Entitlement and approval-path research
- Annexation and redevelopment land-use research
- Parcel, jurisdiction, and municipal-record research
Typical work products
- Research memoranda and findings matrices
- Development-constraint summaries
- Staff-quality review notes and reports
- Plan and ordinance comparisons
- Implementation and action matrices
- Technical appendices for larger studies
Floodplain & resilience planning
Applied support informed by direct floodplain-administration experience, with emphasis on local ordinance requirements, NFIP administration, municipal workflow, and defensible documentation.
Typical assignments
- Floodplain ordinance and policy review
- NFIP/local requirement research
- Floodplain administrative-process review
- Development-constraint and due-diligence research
- Floodplain/stormwater workflow coordination
- Resilience and hazard-policy research
Typical work products
- Regulatory research memoranda
- Ordinance comparison tables
- Process maps and SOP recommendations
- Review checklists and decision aids
- Policy inventories and benchmarking
- Clear identification of issues requiring a licensed professional
Public-sector research & analytics
Quantitative and qualitative analysis translated into a work product that an administrator, board, consultant, or project team can use.
Typical assignments
- Demographic and economic analysis
- Fiscal and public-revenue analysis
- Planning/development fee and cost-recovery studies
- Municipal benchmarking and peer comparison
- Survey, interview, and stakeholder analysis
- Performance measures and implementation tracking
Methods & tools
- ArcGIS and spatial research
- Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Tableau
- Census/ACS, BEA, and BLS data systems
- Policy and ordinance inventories
- Qualitative coding and document review
- Reproducible tables, exhibits, and methodology notes
Municipal process improvement & staff support
Review of how planning and development work actually moves through an organization—from intake and completeness through review, hearing, determination, and recordkeeping.
Typical assignments
- Development-process audits
- Application and completeness review
- Workflow and staff-handoff analysis
- Planning/BZA/commission support
- Staff reports and findings support
- Temporary or on-call research capacity
Typical work products
- Current-state and recommended workflows
- SOPs, checklists, and templates
- Fee/process inventories
- Administrative guidance and documentation
- Backlog or project support packages
- Implementation priorities
Subconsulting & project components
LandSage can work behind a prime consultant, attorney, advisor, university center, or project team on a defined component—using the prime's format and integrating with the larger engagement.
Good fits
- Land-use component of a redevelopment or annexation study
- Zoning/floodplain research for legal or advisory work
- Local-government research for a regional or university project
- Planning and development-process work supporting a finance engagement
- Overflow reports, matrices, inventories, and technical research
Engagement structures
- Fixed-fee project component
- Hourly work with a not-to-exceed ceiling
- On-call or reserved monthly capacity
- White-label deliverables where appropriate
- One paid pilot before a recurring arrangement
Need something adjacent to these services?
Send the project objective, jurisdiction, expected deliverable, and timing. If the work fits the practice, LandSage will propose a scope. If it requires another discipline, that boundary will be stated clearly.