Group Melvin Design is a five person firm specializing in planning, urban design and community development and redevelopment. We advance the practice of building and maintaining healthy, vibrant, enduring communities by offering both planning and implementation solutions to public and private sector clients that share our commitment to smart growth and to social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Municipal Planning

We have tremendous experience in assisting municipalities not only with all their planning needs. Our past and current work includes supporting local governments with day-to-day planning, site plan reviews, land use ordinance writing, signage standards, design standards, and other. We also have considerable experience with comprehensive planning (also referred to as master planning). As such, we have extensive experience assisting municipalities as they move from vision through to implementation.  
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Redevelopment Investigations & Plans

We have extensive experience leading municipalities through each step of the redevelopment process, from conducting investigations to completing and adopting redevelopment plans, in addition to ensuring projects are implemented according to the standards adopted by the municipality through ongoing collaboration with our municipal partners.
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Urban Design

We work with clients in the public and private sector to establish design solutions for development, redevelopment, revitalization, and place making.  These solutions take the form of land capacity studies, conceptual site plans, illustrative, and form-based ordinances, and all seek to establish a sense of place. 
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Regional Planning

We recognize the importance on planning at a regional scale.  We assist and encourage local governments to work together and with Counties and other regional agencies to build consensus and plan comprehensively to ensure sustainable growth and development.
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Placemaking & Environment

We assists our clients with landscape and public realm planning and improvements to enhance their efforts for redevelopment, revitalization, and sustainable growth.
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Visioning & Outreach

We realize that public participation generates creative ideas and garners critical information and insights that might not otherwise surface through the planning process.  Our participation strategies are selected based on the unique conditions of each project area
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