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People needing planning services are often facing complex and intertwined problems such as potential environmental impacts, scheduling and funding/financial pressures, adjacent landowners’ concerns, regulatory hurdles, and controversy from parties not supporting the project. Our solutions are based on 45+ years of planning experience; we provide options, strategies, and contingencies.
We develop alternatives for project proponents and alert them to decision points at the right time, so that we are anticipating and responding—not reacting—to issues and problems that arise during project development.
SHN’s planning clients are generally:
SHN planners have educational backgrounds in environmental planning, land use planning, and environmental science. Much of their experience is gained on the job, where they can be found in the office preparing permit applications, staff reports, and environmental documentation, and in city council and planning commission meetings presenting projects to the public. Our planning services are split between environmental permitting and municipal planning.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) categorical exclusions, environmental assessments, FONSIs, EISs, Federal cross-cutters, mitigation design
Federal regulatory permitting, such as:
US Army Corps permitting (Section 404 Clean Water Act, Section 10 Rivers and Harbors Act) (see also Environmental Services)
National Marine Fisheries Service and US Department of Fish and Wildlife consultation (Federal Endangered Species Act) (see also Biological Sciences)
