LSD’s Community Planning and Design (CPD) Team translates our client communities’ needs, wants, and desires into implementable plans and designs that improve and protect the quality of life. Our designs balance protection of important natural and cultural resources with appropriate public use and enhance citizen safety and accessibility.

CPD services include general planning and policy development, open space and recreation master planning, parks master planning and design, trails planning and design, resource management planning, community wildfire protection planning, area drainage master planning, and shooting facility planning and design.

Public involvement, consensus building, and conflict resolution are central to all services CPD offers. Our public involvement programs are responsive to a variety of stakeholders, provide comprehensive and consistent information, build and maintain collaborative relationships, and create meaningful stakeholder participation. To do this, we use a variety of techniques for visual and written communications, meeting facilitation, outreach, and information collection. LSD’s public involvement services are supported by our dedicated Graphics/GIS Team, which produces high-quality maps and graphics for flyers, brochures, advertisements, display boards, and Web sites.