Outlier Planning Launches with New Approach to Planning Consulting in Florida

West Palm Beach, FL, January 07, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Outlier Planning launches today in a bid to become a new model for how urban planning consultants in Florida conduct business. The new firm is based on five principles – accountability, true collaboration, efficiency, cutting edge and synergistic improvement – that firm Principal Brandon Schaad, AICP, LEED AP, believes are a perfect fit for this economic moment.

“Local governments are hurting now, and they have to demand that their contractors do more with less and can be held responsible for results. That’s us to a ‘t.’ By making smart use of technology and entrepreneurial business practices that have revolutionized other industries, we can bring clients superior service at prices they probably did not know was possible,” Schaad says.

Besides a low cost basis, technological innovation and built-in mechanisms to guarantee results, Schaad believes that a major key to Outlier Planning’s success will be a more productive and forward-thinking relationship with community residents involved in planning projects.

“We don’t want to get ‘input’ from residents,” Schaad says. “We are looking for residents to drive the decision-making process, to understand the issues deeply and discuss and debate them. And we want people to walk away from the project better-equipped to continue as involved citizens in their community.”

The firm, based in West Palm Beach, works throughout Florida, mostly for local governments. Services include evaluation and appraisal reports, comprehensive plan amendments, annual capital improvements updates, neighborhood plans and planning studies, development review and permitting, GIS and custom mapping and expert planning and zoning analysis.

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