Comprehensive local planning is essential to your community in targeting locations for economic development while protecting key environmental and community resources. Whether you need a town-wide local comprehensive plan or a more area-specific master plan for your downtown, LIPMAN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES can help your community develop and implement a vision for its future. We can help you create or revise a master plan for your community. We bring public facilitation and communication skills to your public planning process, enhancing a sense of public ownership, so that the plan we help you create is used by the community and its leaders. This visioning, accomplished through facilitated public workshops, is arguably the most important step in developing broad consensus and support for a plan –and the essential basis for subsequently promulgating rules that will make your vision a reality.