Municipal Planning Services

HKGi provides on-call, day-to-day planning services for several communities in the Twin Cities  metropolitan region. These services include:

  • Development application reviews
  • Zoning ordinance administration, review, revisions
  • Comprehensive planning services
  • Attend, produce report materials, and present at board, commission, and council meetings
  • Grant writing
  • Strategic planning
  • Other regulatory tools planning

HKGi’s planning services provide clients with timely, effective, and efficient responses to day-to-day planning needs. Our services in this area are informed by our long-term experience as municipal planners for a variety of different communities (see Highlights sidebar to the right) as well as by our experience helping clients address long-term planning needs related to comprehensive planning, code updates, park and trail planning, and small area plans.

We emphasize a transparent process to ensure that property owners and developers receive a high level of customer service. We are diligent in working closely with staff to respond to inquiries and review applications in a timely fashion.

Regardless of which community we are serving, our ultimate objective is to be a trusted resource for the city and to use our creativity, experience, knowledge, and resourcefulness to help our clients find solutions to their community planning and development challenges.

Highlights

  • Current planning services clients include the Cities of Mound, Greenfield, Medicine Lake, Lindström, St. Francis, and Marine on St. Croix
  • Provided interim planning services for more then 15 communities
  • Zoning ordinance work has addressed a variety of topics such as Accessory Dwelling
    Units, Accessory Structures, Short-term Vacation Rentals, Kennels, Wild & Scenic River
    Ordinances, Shoreland Ordinances, and many, many more
  • Other services provided to municipal planning clients include comprehensive planning, housing studies, and economic development planning

Location

Various Communities

HKGi’s breadth of in-depth planning experience has allowed us to build a broad base of knowledge about how different communities address development challenges and issues. We are able to draw on many examples from our work and use those examples to help our clients serve their residents, businesses, and property-owners.

Relevant Project Experience